If you work from home with poor posture, be careful of your joints and you may be reimbursed early! Will sitting cross-legged cause scoliosis?
As the epidemic gradually eases, many office workers are gradually ending their “Work From Home” days and turning to the company. During the previous level 3 alert, working from home brought a kind of “liberation” to many people. They did not have to sit at the same desk and adopt the same posture for a long time to work. However, changes in working style may also bring about bad posture problems, especially sitting cross-legged, sitting with legs crossed, and half-sitting and half-lying, which can easily lead to “stress to the bones and stiffness to the bones”, which will surprise you when you return to work. I feel like I have backache all over my body! And how can people avoid injuries to muscles and bones caused by incorrect posture?
If you are used to sitting cross-legged on the floor at work, you may feel sore from head to toe.
Dr. Liao Zhixiang, an orthopedic surgeon, said in an article that many office workers who work from home like to put their laptops on their laps or sit on the coffee table, which causes shoulder and neck soreness, back discomfort, and overall body discomfort throughout the day. Dr. Liao Zhixiang believes that “sitting cross-legged on the floor” is one of the sitting postures that is harmful to the body. The National Institutes of Health have issued a statement: When sitting cross-legged for more than 3 hours, the buttock muscles are stretched, which may cause the pelvis to tilt; and when the pelvis tilts laterally, there is a risk of scoliosis. ; In addition, when sitting cross-legged, the inside of the knee joint will also be under pressure. If the above problems are not resolved for a long time, it may cause degenerative arthritis.
It’s not just your spine and knees that can suffer stress from sitting cross-legged! Dr. Liao Zhixiang added in the post that when sitting cross-legged at work, the head will extend forward because of the need to view information on the computer screen. This is commonly known as “turtle neck”; if the computer is placed too low, not only will there be a turtle neck If this happens, it will also cause pain and discomfort in the cervical spine. It can be said that the usual sitting posture is wrong, or the sitting posture is too lazy and the body is skewed, which will affect it from head to toe.
Poor posture when working from home. Keep your sitting posture “in a straight line” to minimize harm.
In addition to sitting cross-legged and having a turtle neck, Xu Jialin, the chief physician at Huifu Clinic, also pointed out in an interview that common bad sitting postures among office workers include lying on a chair, crossing one’s feet, hunching one’s back, shrugging one’s shoulders, etc. Sitting or standing for a long time is also harmful to the body. There is considerable damage. At present, most office workers work at home, and their postures are relatively casual. In the long run, they will not only suffer from muscle soreness, but in severe cases, they may also suffer from intervertebral disc herniation, scoliosis, and the aforementioned degenerative arthritis. Sitting and standing for long periods of time will cause the same group of muscles to be overused, or prevent other muscle groups from exerting force, causing muscle function imbalance, which may ultimately lead to joint metabolism deterioration and faster degeneration.
Dr. Xu Jialin believes that after finding a table and chair that suits your height, you should sit in a straight line with the “head, neck, shoulders, and back” of the upper body and the “knees and ankles” of the lower body. This will save the most effort on the use of joints and muscles. a method. Furthermore, if you need to carry items at home, try to use a squatting position as the basis for applying force. Avoid leaning back and arching your back too high, and do not be too quick when applying force, otherwise there is a risk of waist sprain. Of course, it will be uncomfortable to stay in the same posture for too long. Dr. Xu Jialin recommends getting up and moving every 30 minutes while working to promote blood circulation and joint metabolism, and also to relax the shoulders and neck from a tight state.
Without the sense of tension and urgency of working in the company, many people work at home and sit and work casually, or even lie in bed and use laptops. This will cause damage to joints and muscles. What is terrible is that if they do not correct their usual A crooked sitting or standing posture may make you feel that your joints are like those of an old person at a young age. Moving your arms or twisting your neck will cause you to doubt your life. It is recommended that when you are at home, even if your boss is not around to “pay close attention”, you should try to maintain a good posture. After all, going to work is hard enough, and going to work with body aches and pains must be even more difficult.
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[Sitting cross-legged on the floor hurts the lumbar spine and pelvis the most] - Dr. Liao Zhixiang
Differences in lumbar and pelvic angles and gluteal pressure in different sitting postures
