My Desk Worker’s Guide to Avoiding Back Pain

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📋 Quick Summary

  • These adjustments cost nothing and made an immediate difference.
  • The second thing, and the one that surprised me most, was that she told me to get up more often.
  • If I am in the middle of something important, I at least stand up and stretch for thirty seconds.
  • The exercises she gave me were surprisingly simple and targeted the muscles that weaken from prolonged sitting.
  • The combination of better sitting posture, hourly movement breaks, and targeted strengthening exercises transformed my back within about six weeks.