The dangers of poor sitting posture and corrective methods
Do not underestimate the 8 hours at the desk again! Sitting posture can bring what trouble? Cervical spondylosis and mouse hand alone is enough for you to suffer. Wrong sitting posture will also let you fall into the chest sagging, migraines, elephant legs 6 abyss. Is not a little sitting? The correct sitting posture immediately move.
1, chest sagging
Leaning forward + hunchback, the whole person nestled in front of the computer
Staring at the computer body is always unconsciously leaning forward, the chest will be close to the edge of the table, gradually squeezed to the sides, resulting in deformation and sagging. This kind of sitting posture will make the chest loose and weak, and without the strength to support, the breasts will not be able to resist the gravitational force!
This “do”
Remember the “chest from the edge of the table a fist” principle, if you always forget, you may want to bring a long exaggerated shape of the necklace, or cut half a tennis ball card on the edge of the table facing the chest, can play a very good reminder. You can also try to change the other hand every two weeks to use the mouse (left and right mouse buttons can do the opposite setting), can also effectively avoid the body always tilted to one side.
2.Migraine
Leaning on the desktop with your cheek and looking at the screen with slanted eyes
Leaning on the desktop and staring at the screen? Put the handset between your shoulder and head to answer the phone? These postures will make the muscles near the cervical spine overly tense, reducing the blood supply to the cerebral cortex. In addition, too high or too low computer screen will make you unconsciously shrug your shoulders, hunch your back, so that the cervical spine is also deformed, and it is easy to cause migraine.
This “do”
Check your computer placement first, the middle part of the monitor should be right in front of your chin; if possible, it is best to answer the phone with a loudspeaker or headphones, and resolutely avoid the wrong sitting posture of clamping the receiver to answer the phone. People who need to keep typing every day, you can put a small sign in a conspicuous position, always remind yourself.
3, mouse hand
The desktop is too high, shrugging shoulders to operate the keyboard and mouse
Women’s wrists are thinner, tendon sheath tolerance is relatively low, so the mouse hand attack rate of women is more than three times that of men! Press the palm of the hand and will support the wrist on the table posture, will let all the weight on the wrist nerves, muscles and blood vessels, and the wrist dorsiflexion degree is almost close to the maximum. If this situation exists for a long time, the blood circulation of the hand will be affected, the mouse hand naturally find!
So “do”
The higher the position of the keyboard and mouse, the greater the degree of dorsiflexion of the wrist joint, we can put them in a slightly lower position according to their own situation. Arms naturally down, the height of the elbow joint is the height of the keyboard and mouse placement; at the same time every half an hour to move both wrists, shake fist, do finger exercises.
4.Hard cervical spine
Face too forward, close to the computer screen
Long-term poor sitting posture will lead to muscle strain in the neck, and the vertebral body lost muscle reasonable support, it is easy to deformation, the cervical spine itself convex physiological curvature, will gradually straighten with external forces or even anti-bow.
This “do”
Adjust the height of the desktop and chair ratio to avoid excessive head and neck back or excessive forward flexion, the market sold with the desktop is 10 to 30 degrees of adjustable sloping work board will be more conducive to the adjustment of sitting posture. In addition, also remember that every hour or so, gently and slowly do a few minutes of head movement to avoid stiffness, so that the head and neck muscles can get a full blood supply.
5.Zombie back
Cross your legs, crooked on one side of the armrest of the chair
Unconsciously crossed legs? This posture will limit the blood flow in one leg, and the weight of the upper body will be pressed on one leg, causing the spine to bend and the back to stiffen. In addition, can not be adjusted or no backrest chair, often causing the body to lean forward excessively, making the spinal curvature and lumbar disc protrusion symptoms more serious.
This “do”
Each person’s body shape is different, so the office seat is best to choose a manual “adjustment type”. The height of the chair should be able to make the feet can be flat on the floor, thighs should also be parallel to the floor; the back of the chair should be close to the back and keep the tilt of about 120 degrees. Oh yes, if you need to look at the computer screen for a long time, it is best to choose a high-backed chair to support the entire back.
6, elephant legs
Chair too high or too low, the knee joint can not be a right angle
Even if the correct sitting posture, as long as the time is too long, our legs will appear to varying degrees of swelling, no way, who let the blood supply to them is suppressed it! If coupled with the wrong sitting posture such as crossed legs, chair height discomfort, leg swelling, knee joint tingling phenomenon will certainly be more serious.
This “do”
If you want to keep your legs slim and healthy, you must remember to get up every half an hour to move, without doing special movements, as long as “walk two steps”, you can effectively avoid swelling. The height of the chair should also be appropriate, sitting legs to a ninety-degree angle, the feet should be able to flat on the ground can.