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Sleep affects your back
It is important not to lie down on your front when you sleep as this position tends to arch your back, and your neck turns 90 degrees.
Instead, try sleeping on your back or side. If you suffer from pack pain, sleep with a pillow between your knees to balance your hips.
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For a healthier back, develop the "inner corset" core strength: the group of core muscles that support your spine. Crunches are not the best exercises for this purpose as they also crunch your discs and nerves.
You should engage particular muscles deep in the abdomen and back; the...
If you tend to slump, you need to learn to lengthen your back. Use the time that you're sitting to stretch yourself against the backrest.
- Sit with your bottom well back in your chair while moving your upper body away from the backrest.
- Place your fists on t...
Standing desks can be good, but it depends on how you hold your body. When the average person stands, they lock their knees back, the hips forward and arch their back.
When you stand, adopt a stance of "readiness," maintaining a little bit of spring in your knees. It takes muscular effort...
The childhood advice of sitting up straight, shoulders back, is incorrect.
Sitting this way takes effort. We end up arching our backs by tensing up our muscles. When we tighten them, we shorten them, and that arches the back, loads the discs in the lower back, and pushes the edges of t...
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With the 2020 pandemic, many people are required to stay home.
If you're one of these people, you may be noticing new aches and pains you did not experience at the office.
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... to play games that require balancing and movement.
Playing any games while standing up is also an alternative, as sitting all day is bad for us.
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For much of history, human beings had an active lifestyle, but it did not include any kind of formal exercise.
Movement just for movement's sake is a relatively new phenomenon in human history.
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