Ergonomics & Posture – The Key To Low Lower Lumbar Pain Relief
If you happen to look at a large majority of people sitting on chairs, you are going to see that they are either slouching, lounging or just leaning back, relaxing in a manner which does no good to their spinal cord.
The idea of sitting in a chair, according to those people, is to rest your posterior in a chair seat, lean back with a relieved sigh, fold your hands complacently over your tummy and do a spot of deep meditation. This might relax you a lot in the beginning, but it does absolutely nothing to your posture, spinal cord, back, neck, and of course your tummy. Pain and strain are sure to follow.
Most people have a problem with focusing on anything else other than work when its in between 9 to 5. What happens is that most people get so wrapped up in their work that they stop paying attention to their posture while sitting in front of that computer all day. This will lead to a tremendous amount of back and neck pain making it hard to focus on anything.
To make sure that we never find ourselves in such a state — when our once firm stomach muscles have reached the consistency of watery jelly, our shoulders show the body language state of “dejected, disheartened and dismayed” — we have to look at the ergonomics — the best way — of sitting in chairs or a sofa.
Most chairs that you sit in, will seem comfortable while sitting there, but that is because the body is so used to that slouching position. If are reading this in your favorite chair at home look at how you are sitting now and determine if you’re posture is good or bad.
Do not put a major portion of your body weight upon your hip bones. Some weight has to be placed upon the portion of your body, which can support it, your feet. Make sure that your feet are touching something solid. This is the easiest way to get a good posture.
Imagine that you are sitting for an interview; what do you do under such circumstances? You sit with your back straight, head held high. But the moment you get the job, you go back to your slouch couch potato position, not bothering about your posture at all! Make sure that you are not sitting on your tailbone. That can only be done by tilting your pelvic region forward, so that some of your body weight is placed upon your seat bones.
One of the other things that people do not realize up front is how their computer is set up can sometimes hurt their posture as well. This stems from putting your computer screen in a place that requires strain on the neck in order to read the screen. If you have your computer sitting at eye level it will take a tremendous amount of strain off your spinal cord. This happens because you are not required to look up or down for long periods of time, and can keep a good posture while sitting there.
One of the best things you can do to start the transformation of your posture is to do exercises to strengthen your neck and back muscles. This will make it easier to support your corrected posture making it easier to do.
Correcting posture is not easy and takes a lot hard work and discipline. You need to make sure that every time you sit down that you are sitting in an upright position so that you are not putting pressure on the tailbone. Once you start doing this you will train you’re body to do it all the time.
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Written by Eric Normand on December 10th, 2009 with
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