The Myths and Facts of Sitting Up Straight

Do you always find yourself being distracted from working because of spasm in your lower back? Do you often feel tenderness in your muscles accompanied by numbness in your joins and other tired body parts? If you do, then maybe it is the sitting that causes such discomforts.

If you believe that sitting up straight can alleviate the pain, then you have to turn your back to such belief. Because the truth is, sitting up straight doesn’t help lessen discomfort, rather, it just aggravates such negative condition.

Yes, office furniture designers and manufacturers may need to go back to their drawing board to create the perfect sitting position after a new study revealed the best way to work.

A recent study at the Woodend Hospital in Aberdeen have shown that sitting up straight to keep a right posture, may not be the best position for the human spine and have suggested to workers to adopt a relaxed position instead.

Using a new form of magnetic resonance imaging popularly known as MRI, research discovered that an office chair which allows an angle of over 125 degrees between the thighs and the torso is ideal for good posture and can help prevent slip discs in employees’ backs.

A group of researchers from Canada and Scotland have found out that a 90-degree sitting angle, or L-positing sitting could compress the spine and could lead to possible pain and stiff muscles or long-term back discomforts.

According to the leader of the study, Dr. Waseem Bashir, spines are squashed and misaligned when pressure is put in it.

Following the results of the research, a sitting demonstration is conducted to show people that the best biomechanical sitting position is to have your body and tight create a 135-degree angle and not a perfect 90 degrees. He also added that this ideal position is similar to that of the astronauts’ during take-off, however, not all office furniture manufacturers design a chair with such angle. That is why recommendations of this study include crafting an office chair that would best fit such sitting position.

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