Wrong sitting posture brings 6 major harms to the body

What troubles can a bad sitting posture bring? Isn't it just cervical spondylosis and mouse hand? What else can it be? You underestimate the 8 hours at your desk! Wrong sitting posture will also make you fall into 6 abysses such as sagging breasts, migraines, and elephant legs. Are you having a hard time sitting still? Learn the correct sitting posture right away.

1. Breast sagging

Leaning forward + hunching over, hunched over the computer

When staring at the computer, the body always leans forward unconsciously, and the chest will be pressed tightly against the edge of the table, and gradually squeezed to the sides, causing deformation and sagging. Working at a desk is most likely to cause hunchback and forward-bending shoulders. This sitting posture will make the breasts loose and weak, and without the strength to support them, the breasts will certainly not be able to resist the pull of gravity!

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Keep in mind the principle of "chest should be one fist away from the edge of the table". If you always forget, you might as well wear an exaggerated long necklace, or cut half of a tennis ball and stick it on the edge of the table facing your chest, which can serve as a good reminder. You can also try using the mouse with your other hand every two weeks (the left and right mouse buttons can be set oppositely), which can also effectively prevent your body from always leaning to one side.

2. Migraine

Leaning on the table with his chin in his hand, looking at the screen with his eyes squinting

Are you leaning on the desk and staring at the screen? Or holding the receiver between your shoulder and head to answer the phone? These postures will cause excessive tension in the muscles near the cervical spine and reduce blood supply to the cerebral cortex. In addition, a computer screen that is too high or too low will cause you to unconsciously shrug your shoulders and hunch your back, causing your cervical spine to deform, which can easily lead to migraines.

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First check the placement of your computer. The middle of the monitor should be right in front of your chin. If possible, it is best to use a loudspeaker or headset to answer the phone, and avoid the incorrect sitting position of holding the receiver to answer the phone. Girls who need to type all day can put a small reminder in a conspicuous position on the edge of the keyboard, such as: "Don't shrug!" "Typing with your head tilted, NO!".

3. Mouse Hand

The desk is too high, so I have to shrug my shoulders and operate the keyboard and mouse.

Women's wrists are thinner, and the nerves in the middle of the wrist are under greater pressure, so the incidence rate of mouse hand in women is more than three times that of men! Pressing your palms down and supporting your wrists on the table will put all the weight on the nerves, muscles, and blood vessels in the wrists, and the degree of dorsiflexion of the wrist joint is almost close to the maximum value. If this situation persists for a long time, the blood circulation of the hand will be affected, and mouse hand will naturally come to you!

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The higher the keyboard and mouse are placed, the greater the degree of dorsiflexion of the wrist joint. We can place them in a slightly lower position according to our own situation. When your arms hang naturally, the height of your elbow joints is the height of the keyboard and mouse; at the same time, you should move your wrists, clench your fists, and do finger exercises every half an hour.

4. Hard cervical vertebra

The face is too forward and too close to the computer screen

The neck appears straight when viewed from the front, but in fact the cervical vertebrae, wrapped in muscles, protrude forward. Long-term poor sitting posture can lead to deformation and stiffness of the neck muscles, and the cervical vertebrae lose the supporting strength of the muscles. The physiological curvature of this section of the convex cervical spine will gradually straighten or even bend in the opposite direction with external force.

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Adjust the height ratio between the desktop and the chair to avoid excessive backward leaning or forward bending of the head and neck. The adjustable inclined work board sold on the market with an angle of 10 to 30 degrees to the desktop will be more conducive to adjusting the sitting posture. In addition, remember to do gentle and slow head exercises for a few minutes every hour or so to avoid stiffness and allow the head and neck muscles to get adequate blood supply.

5. Zombie Back

Cross your legs and lean on the armrest of the chair

Crossing your legs unconsciously? This position restricts blood flow to one leg and places the weight of your upper body on one leg, causing your spine to bend and your back to become stiff. In addition, chairs that cannot be adjusted or have no backrest often cause the body to lean forward excessively, making the symptoms of spinal curvature and lumbar disc herniation worse.

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Everyone has a different body shape, so it is best to choose a manually "adjustable" office chair. The height of the chair should allow your feet to be flat on the floor and your thighs to be parallel to the floor; the backrest should be close to your back and tilted about 120 degrees. Oh, by the way, if you need to look at the computer screen for a long time, it is best to choose a high-back chair to support your entire back.

6. Elephant Legs

The chair is too high or too low, and the knee joint cannot be at a right angle

Even if we sit in the correct posture, our legs will swell to varying degrees for too long. There is no way around it because the blood supply to them is blocked! If we add incorrect sitting postures such as crossing our legs or sitting in an inappropriate chair height, the swelling of the legs and the tingling in the knee joints will become more serious.

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If you want to keep your legs slender and healthy, you must remember to get up and move around every half an hour. You don’t need to do any special movements, just “walk a few steps” to effectively avoid swelling. The height of the chair should also be appropriate. When sitting, your legs should be at a 90-degree angle and your feet should be flat on the ground.