New Advice - Don't Sit Up Straight

New researche suggests that it is not good to sit at your desk straight up.
Sitting up straight at your desk can do your back more damage.

Tests at Woodend Hospital, in Aberdeen, were carried out on 22 healthy people who have never suffered from back problems.




They were asked to sit in three positions: hunched over a desk or video console; perfectly upright at 90 degrees; and reclining back at 135 degrees with their feet on the floor.

Disc movement, which happens when strain is put on the back, was biggest in the upright position.

Results were studied by experts in in Canada.
Dr Wasim Amir Bashir, of Alberta Hospital, - "We were not created to sit down for long hours, but somehow modern life requires the vast majority of the global population to work in a seated position."

"A 135-degree body-thigh sitting posture was demonstrated to be the best biomechanical sitting position, as opposed to a 90-degree posture, which most people consider normal," said study author, Waseem Amir Bashir, a researcher at the University of Alberta Hospital in Canada. "Sitting in a sound anatomic position is essential, since the strain put on the spine and its associated ligaments over time can lead to pain, deformity and chronic illness."

Back pain, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, is the most common cause of work-related disability in the United States. It costs Americans nearly $50 billion annually. Sitting appears to be a major cause of this ailment.

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