Quick SItting Tips

Dr. Eric St-Onge, Chiropractor
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Pop quiz!  Which picture below depicts the best sitting posture?

 
Before we go over that, try this out.  Place your hands together (as if you are holding a piece of paper between your hands) and squeeze them together as hard as you can. Keep squeezing.  Notice that after a certain amount of time, your muscles became tired and gave out?  Now imagine you squeezed these muscles (at a lower intensity) but for 13 hours a day, every day?  Do you think those muscles would be stiff and sore? 

Well, this is what happens when we choose a single sitting position and never move out of it!

Staying in the same position for an extended period of time can lead to sore muscles and/or back pain.

So maybe the better question is, how often should we be changing positions? 

Best-case scenario – stand up and go for a small walk / take a stretch break / visit the water cooler every 20 minutes.

Second best-case scenario – change your sitting position every 20 minutes. 

The idea here is that we want to give your muscles a break by changing positions.  Simple as that. 
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Try this out and leave a comment below to let me know how it goes!

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