The Desk Job Blues

SITTING AT A DESK FOR LONG HOURS CAN AFFECT YOUR HEALTH

There are at least three (3) ways sitting at a desk for long periods of time can affect your health and they are as follows:

1. spine damage
2. computer eye strain
3. heart health

Poor posture in a prolonged sitting and poor thought out work stations are major causes of back and neck pain.

These great tips can help:

• practice good ergonomics (meaning design the workplace station to fit the worker). Keep the computer slightly below eye level. Have your hands reach the keyboard without bending your wrists. Have good back support.
• maintain good posture. Sit up straight.
• Follow the 50-10 rule. For every 50 minutes of sitting, you should get up and move around for 10 minutes. Exercise your back and neck.
• Take the stairs
• Stretch your neck
• Loosen your upper back

I hope this information was helpful to all the desk job workers. I decided to write this article to make everyone aware of the cause of sitting for long periods of time. We work our minds but not so much the muscles.