Posture is the thing people apologise for before we have said a word. Sit up straight, shoulders back, stop slouching. It is the most repeated instruction in the whole field and the one with the least evidence behind it.
What the studies keep finding is that no single sitting or standing position is the correct one, and that the strongest link to back and neck pain is how long you hold a position rather than which position it is. Movement beats geometry.
These pieces set out what the evidence actually shows about sitting, bending and lifting, and what we do with it in the room.
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A 5 minute stretching routine for office workersSitting most of the day leaves the neck tight, the mid back stiff and the hips short. Here is a five move routine you can run at your chair or in a doorway, with the reps we give people in the room.
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Is workplace ergonomics the answer to low back pain?High end chairs and carefully designed workspaces are held up as the answer to low back pain at work. Systematic reviews of physical and organisational ergonomic measures found they often changed very little. Here is what the evidence supports instead.
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Rethinking posture: more than just sitting up straightPosture is tied to spinal health in most people's minds, and an industry thrives on correcting it. The evidence linking a particular way of sitting or bending to pain is thin. Here is what that changes about how you move through a day.
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