1. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
When you’re not moving your body and changing postures on a regular basis, that exposes you to issues that we call cumulative musculoskeletal disorders. If you’re sitting at a desk (or standing) and your mouse and keyboard aren’t set up properly, it could lead to wrist, hand, and arm pain.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is when a median nerve is squeezed or compressed through the wrist. You may feel pain in wrist and tingling sensation in fingers.
2. Sitting Can Lead to Back Pain
If you’ve sat at a desk for too long—especially one that wasn’t set up properly—your back was probably one of the first places you experienced pain.
After two or three hours of sitting the muscles in the lower back tend to elongate. They stretch out the ligaments and the muscles themselves. The pelvis tilts backward, and that slouching effect ends up putting pressure on all of those muscles that run up and down close to the spine, to the vertebrae.
This could lead to dysfunction, radiculopathy (pinched nerve), or even shooting pains down the legs and sciatica, At the same time, you have stuff going on in your mid-upper back and neck. One thing often leads to another. This causes a cascade of issues: The back muscles get really tight and stiff, the neck ends up hurting, and then people begin complaining of headaches because of that period of extension.
3. Can Lead to Sciatica
Sciatica is a type of nerve pain that originates in the lower spine and branches down the back of both legs, which can hinder simple movements like sitting and walking.
If you sit all day and then go to the gym and pump weights, you’re setting yourself up for more stiffening around your body, specifically the joints. That’s going to cause all kinds of issues like sciatica, compressed nerves, neurological issues, and pain.
4. Sitting Can Lead to Tight Hip Muscles
Experiencing hip pain could be due to a number of factors, but if you’re sitting at a desk all day, your hips and glutes can become tight.
If the gluteal muscles and your IT band are too tight, they can pull at the thigh bone where they attach and cause pain on the side.
How to Reduce Your Daily Sitting Time
Take the time to go for a 10-minute walk every hour or every couple of hours, When you’re going to the bathroom, maybe go to one on a different floor or further down the hall so it just forces you to walk a little bit more.
Take 10 minute walks after every meal. When you want to take a short break from work along with colleagues, better take a walk outside the office while chatting.
When you’re sitting statically, things slow down in the body—your metabolism rates drop and you have less flow of fluid throughout your body. Getting up and moving is going to lubricate your joints and get your blood flowing.
Just typing all day at work and then texting all night with friends. This causes repetitive stress on your various joints. When you start to become symptomatic and experiencing pain better to use voice recognition software when texting or using smartphones,
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