Your Sitting Posture at Work Affects Muscles in the Neck, Shoulders and Lower back

One in 10 office-goers suffer from muscular, skeletal pain at some point in their careers mainly due to posture and restricted muscle activity.

When it comes to computer related work, pains relating to neck, shoulder and lower back is common. A kinesiology researcher has found a solution for this problem.

Professor at the McGill University, Julie Cote said that even though office workers may not naturally see it that way, their body was basically their work instrument, just as it is for an athlete.

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The walkers showed slight decrease in processing speed, attention and typing words per minute but the overall drop was not enough to warrant major concern.

She added that it could get injured in similar ways and for similar reasons like overuse of certain muscles and these workstations may be good for getting people moving and losing weight but no one has looked into how this kind of posture affects the muscles in the neck, shoulders and lower back.

The researchers discovered that there was lower but more variable neck and shoulder muscle activity when subjects were walking compared with sitting. They concluded that treadmill work stations would potentially be helpful in reducing the neck and shoulder muscle pain associated with computer work.

Cote, who herself faced the similar workplace problem, said that whether a person was a computer worker or a middle-distance runner, injuries happened when they tense a particular muscle or group of muscles for too long, halting the flow of blood into the region as it should and regenerate the muscles.

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The research is published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology.

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