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Change the posture often in the job

07/22/2013

If you work in the office, you spend most of the day in the same posture in front of the computer. But even truck drivers or hairdressers rarely change their position in the job. All too often, areas of the body are tense up so much that muscular ailments are the result. Back pain, for example, takes first place among the sickness-related outages of workers. But other ailments such as neck pain, fat legs, shoulder punctures and upper arm pain can be a result of unnatural, wrong posture.

Exercise and fresh air are important in the job
Many people do not move at all during their job or do the same thing during their work. Lack of exercise or unilateral movement often causes problems with the back, arms and legs as well as numerous other complaints that are due to malpractice. Anette Wahl-Wachendorf from the Association of German Plant and Factory Physicians in Germany (VDBW) explained to the news agency "dpa" how working people can prevent back pain and so on.

Due to the same movement patterns as typing on the keyboard and clicking with the mouse, certain muscles are permanently overloaded while others at the same time atrophy because they are not used at all. The expert from the VDBW therefore advises working people to consciously change their posture more often in order to prevent unilateral unhealthy burdens and diseases. Thus, a hairdresser who works mostly standing, deliberately divorced some customers sitting down the hair. A truck driver and people working in the office should travel to work by bike to make up for the long ride. According to Wahl-Wachendorf, every working person should have moved in different ways at the end of the working day.

Also fresh air is important. This applies above all to people who work in closed rooms without natural light and fresh air. The expert advises to go outside during lunch break. Be good for the immune system and the psyche.

In addition, many companies have responded by offering their employees discounted gym membership, use of a company-owned training room, or tai chi or yoga, sometimes during working hours.

Long sitting shortens lifespan
Extensive sitting activities are not only bad for posture, they also shorten life on average by about two years, according to US researchers. As the team led by Peter Katzmarzyk of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University and I-Min Lee of the Harvard Medical School in Boston reported in the British Medical Journal in July of last year, the results of their study showed that a maximum sitting time from less than three hours a day and limiting television consumption to less than two hours daily, life expectancy from birth in the US increased by approximately 2.0 and 1.4 years, respectively. For their study, the researchers used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).

As the scientists further reported, prolonged sitting has even greater impact on life expectancy than health risk factors such as overweight (obesity). For example, it would be estimated that life expectancy at birth in the US is reduced by 0.30 to 1.08 years due to obesity. When rough it is 2.5 years. (Ag)

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