Revealing the 8 most harmful daily postures to your body

What bad habits do you have in life? Have you ever paid attention to your sitting or standing posture? Don't underestimate these small postures, they can pose a threat to your health. Only by maintaining the correct posture can we be healthy from the inside out. The following 8 postures are the most harmful to your health.

1. Arching your back and stretching your head while working

Arching your back and stretching your head are the most harmful to your body. They can cause the cervical spine and shoulders to flex forward, and induce severe pain in the waist, back, and cervical spine. Correct posture: Choose a chair with adjustable height and back angle; keep your knees, thighs, back and elbows at 90 degrees when sitting; tuck your chin inward to open your chest and shoulders to help with breathing.

2. Sitting lazily while watching TV

Sitting slumped affects breathing and digestion. Sitting lazily on the sofa not only squeezes your internal organs, but also easily leads to lumbar muscle strain. Correct posture: Choose a slightly higher and harder sofa. If the sofa is too soft, you can add a cushion; if the seat is too deep, you may want to put a back pillow behind your waist to keep your back upright.

3. Sit with your chin in your hands and think

Often sitting with your chin in your hand thinking about problems can cause back pain. This posture is very bad for our cervical spine and can also cause headaches. Correct posture: When thinking about something, we can stand up and walk around, or put our hands on the back of our neck and turn them to ensure blood circulation in the brain.

4. Stand sideways

Leaning to one side will cause harm to the spine. This standing posture will cause uneven force on both sides of the lumbar spine, leading to low back pain. Correct posture: Stand with your legs straight, your calves and abdomen slightly tightened, your center of gravity slightly forward, and your eyes looking straight ahead. If you need to stand for a long time, change your center of gravity using the "at ease" movement every 10 minutes.

5. Walk with your head down and your chest tucked in.

Lowering your head and hunching your chest will affect your heart and lungs. Many people just keep their heads down and look at the road when they walk, which is the most likely way to cause fatigue. Correct posture: Keep your head and eyes straight ahead, let your thighs drive your calves when taking steps, and use "small quick steps" to increase the frequency of leg movements, which is beneficial to activating cardiopulmonary function.

6. Kick down the stairs

Tapping puts weight on the leg joints and can hurt the knees. Correct posture: The knees and toes should be vertical. For example, when you take a step with your right foot, your right knee should be relaxed as much as possible, allowing the weight of your body to fall on the soles of your feet.

7. Run with only your calves lifted

Lifting only your calves will cause damage to your knees and cause fatigue easily. Correct posture: Use the upper arm, hip joint, thigh and calf to "send" the leg out, bend the knee slightly when landing, and "roll" the foot from the heel to the forefoot. This posture saves the most muscle effort, reduces the pressure on the knee joint, and is the most effective in exercising the heart and lungs.

8. Sleeping in the supine position

Because the prone position can easily put pressure on the chest, affect breathing, and make people feel uncomfortable. Sleeping in a prone position for adolescent girls can also affect the development of their chest and breasts, especially if they sleep in a supine position in the postpartum month. This will cause the uterus, which weighs more than 1 kg after delivery, to fall backwards under the action of gravity. The ligaments that support the position of the uterus after delivery are often weak and cannot restore normal tension, making it difficult to pull the uterus to the front position. Over time, the uterus inverts into a posterior position, resulting in a retroverted uterus. A posterior uterus can be prevented, and the method of prevention is very simple, which is to rest in a side-lying position.