Slouch for a Healthy Back !

So, your mother said "sit up straight, you lazy so and so, good for nothing slacker !", but we now realise that this advice could be a prescription for lower back pain.

Researchers have been looking at the spine with the new imaging technology they have available and this is revealing that sitting upright with a straight back and your thighs parallel to the floor puts extra strain on lumbar discs in your lower back.

It is in fact better to lean back a bit, maybe up to 135 degrees in a chair. Some would say it looks like slouching. Many computer programmers and office workers have known that even though they may look like they are not taking their work seriously, they are more comfrortable going against the "sitting upright brigade" and slouching - intuitively they have known what now is being confirmed by scientists.

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