medicalnewstoday.com — It seems that sitting up straight, something many of us are taught from a very early age, is not good for your back, say researchers from Scotland and Canada. They found that sitting up straight strains your back unnecessarily. Ideally, you should lean slightly back, at an angle of about 135 degrees, they say.
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nerditupNov 29, 2006
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Closed AccountNov 29, 2006
Zactly you will cause your neck to be under constant stress thus causing a state of sublaxation which eventually will be much more discomforting then lower bak pain. Potentially causing calcium build ups to compensate for your new improved miss aligned neck You will turn into those old people I'm sure you ve seen with there head tilting frwrd like a turtle.
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WHAT? ONLY MONKEYS DONT SIT UP STRAIGHT. DO U THINK IM A MONKEY OR MY GRANDPA IS.Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang. Walla walla, bing bang.
dmoney22Nov 29, 2006
135 degrees or the scientific term "gangsta lean."
aickieranNov 29, 2006
lukz likez u gotz enuf problemz wiv da english init.
rorrimNov 29, 2006
Actually, I'm still in high school.School rules: Sit "up"Me: Eat my cited scientific sources bitches!!
zenmojoNov 29, 2006
For the last three weeks I would randomly realize how bad my posture is and try to correct it (for about 5 minutes, then give up). Finally, justification!Add this to my love of chocolate, masturbation, sex, and videogames as "Things that people say are bad for you but are actually incredibly good for you."
spaceace510Nov 30, 2006
How very interesting. No wonder nobody likes standing up straight!
topcatajNov 30, 2006
Listening to a 'back expert' talk about this for a few minutes on the radio the other day, I understood it wasn't about leaning back at all, but changing the angle of your legs.You would still sit with your back fairly upright, but your knees would be below your pelvis, at the 135 degree from your back angle thing.It tilts your pelvis into a better load bearing posture or something.Easily done on most chairs, just sit near the front edge and point your knees down at 45 degrees from flat.Which onvolves me having my feet underneath my chair, and is actually a posture I've naturally ended up in at times using computers, I guess because it's relatively comfortable.
dondiggsDec 1, 2006
Great example...of another bunch of #@*&%$! IDIOTS!!!God it drives me crazy. I cannot (cannot, cannot, cannot!!!) believe that institutions give money for this kind of drivel.I don't have the time to properly rebuff this atrocity but it is a great example of the kind of non-thinking that has virally infiltrated our society. Real quick1. we were evolved to sit like aborigines that you see squatting on their haunches in National Geographic.- Truth2. We were not meant to sit in chairs and lazy boys but our forebrains and cortex grew and we began to concept and imagine reality as different then we began to use opposable thumbs to build things. Truth 3. We DO sit in Lazy boys and NOT like aborigines. Truth4. We ARE going against our intelligent design and we are reaping the consequences of such practices- poor posture, bad brains, weak muscles and lots of dysfunction and pain -Truth. 5. Come along more advanced thinkers who see humans sitting in pain, use more technical inventions to map their spines and find that ..AHA! we are sitting at the wrong angle, if we lean back we actually use LESS MUSCLES so that we will GET WEAKER and eventually never PHUCKING stand AGAIN! -truth postulated 6. To determine that upright sitting is deleterious our same forebrain advanced come alongers from #5 use humans with spines already made of jelly who couldn't sit upright if there lives depended upon it as the individuals in which they glean their insights from! -Truth 7.The summary? Research has shown that 135 degrees is the optimal position for both quadriplegics and Olympic athletes alike. -truth8. Do you see the size of the blind spot our current scientific thinking has today? 9. They are walking into walls and leading a majority of the faithful with them. -unfortunate truth.Dr Don