Leg Length Difference – What is a Leg Length Discrepancy?
Posture can be greatly affected by a leg length difference. Whether your leg length discrepancy is caused by an actual leg length difference or a functional leg length difference, you may find yourself shopping for shoe inserts, getting fitted for orthotics or considering orthopedic surgery.
Read More →Work – Sit or Stand?
Lately I’ve been reading blog posts by people who’ve had good luck standing while working at the computer. Today, I tried this. It worked great for a few minutes and then I felt myself getting pulled into my screen by my need to deeply focus. My brain automatically wanted me to sit down and get [...]
Read More →Upper Back Pain?
How often does your upper back hurt? Upper back pain is one of those things that seems to elude the “people in the know”, ie medical researchers and conventional physicians. They’ve done some studies on it but not nearly as many as for neck pain or lower back pain. Yet, one of the few things they do know about upper back pain is that it’s about as common as lower back pain, which affects 80% of people at some point in their lives. It is also just as troubling.
Read More →When to Use an Expert – Healthy Work Positions
If you are going to be proactive about getting and staying comfortable, you most likely need an expert to help you. A workplace study, published in the October 2009 Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and involving about 1500 people, found that just buying an ergonomic desk set up isn’t enough to address the posture [...]
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