Ever notice how your productivity tends to suffer as the day goes on?
Moving your body is perhaps one of the best ways to recharge yourself. This is particularly true if your work involves a lot of sitting and thinking at a desk. Care2 Blog Easy Body Movements to Improve Productivity gives 5 simple ways to move their bodies at work to get more done.
Whether you’re sitting or standing, your body just isn’t meant to be inactive for long stretches of time. You need to move.
Standing still is still not as bad for you as sitting. To get the most out of your standing desk, you need a way to keep yourself moving around.
This doesn’t mean you need to start aerobics in place in the office. Just get a balance board! There are many benefits of a balance board at work besides keeping you active. Check out these 6 benefits:
Muscle stabilization is extremely important. When you use a balance board, your lumbopelvic region must work to keep you upright. This region is left to atrophy when you sit all day and, as a result, you can end up with a core that struggles to carry its own weight when you begin moving around again.
Standing for prolonged period of time, fidgeting soon sets in. You’ll start swaying back and forth, shifting your weight around, picking up your feet, things like that.
Using a balance board makes it fun to stay standing. The micro- movements required to stay vertical are also forms of exercise that don’t require you to stop what you are doing and continue working.
Moving throughout the day will help you stay more alert. Fatigue comes from staying still too long. Staying still for too long makes your blood circulation less efficient, which leads to that foggy feeling in your head. This is another big advantage a balance board has over using a standing desk all by itself.
All those little exercises you’ll be doing with your board increase your blood circulation, which along with other benefits, also helps keep your heart beating and healthy.
This doesn’t mean you’ll be tiring yourself out, though. The easy little movements you do while working at your standing desk and standing on your board do just enough to keep you active, without tiring you out.
A standing desk is a great step to take to stop slouching, but if you really want to take your posture to the next level, you’ve got to get a balance board.
Because a balance board encourages small movements in order to maintain balance, you’ll notice that you no longer feel uncomfortable because of standing so still.
Instead, you’ll find that your posture improves because the muscles in your back are getting stronger.
A balance board will also help you be more productive at work.
The energy you’re keeping up by standing on the board doesn’t just make you feel better, it makes it easier to keep being productive.
You already know that standing desks are good for you, and now you can make them even better by adding a board.
In conclusion, if you want to feel better, be in better shape, be better at your job, and make your work time just a little more fun, get a balance board. Using a balance boards at work can have overall health benefit.
Many of us have health issues that we attribute to bad genes, poor diet, or possibly even the environment. But now we have a better understanding of the effects of excessive sitting all day.
HOVR blogs gives us 10 Side Effects of Sitting All Day:
The Art of Manliness not only gives you great information on standing posture, but a whole Ultimate Guide to Posture and its health benefits.
Dry needling (DN) is a treatment option for relief of chronic low back pain.
What is Dry Needling? DN is a procedure during which a thin filiform needle is directly inserted into an active myofascial trigger point (MTrP).
Stressed or injured muscles, often form trigger points, that cause pain and tightness.
The goal of dry needling is to create a muscle twitch response, which is a sub-cortical reflex. In other words, the nerve impulse travels to the spine and back out to the muscle rather than going up to the brain. At this time, the physiology of the muscle is changed.
As a result, for someone who is suffering from chronic low back pain, Dry Needling, will target the MTrP , then tension of the low back is released. Subsequently allowing the muscle to stretch and contract more effectively.
Mayfield Brain and Spine demonstrates and explains how one may get Low Back Pain Relief with Dry Needling.
Dry Needling is within the scope of practice for a Physical Therapist. However, several other health professions cite that dry needling is within their specific scope of practice as well. But, there is specific U.S. state rules, regulations and guidelines that do not permit the practice of dry needling. Find out here
In conclusion, many people are seeking new and safe alternatives to treat their low back pain. Dry needling may be part of the solution.
The therapy is a generally safe procedure for most people. However, you should first talk to your primary doctor about whether dry needling is an appropriate therapy for your low back pain.
One of the most common causes of low back pain is poor sitting posture. Improper position puts strain on the back, excessive pressure on the joints, muscles, and discs, causing pain.
Reduce back pain with proper sitting posture.
Medicial News Today suggest you can improve posture and achieve a proper sitting position, as result reducing back pain by:
Choosing a standing desk can be intimidating.
Whether you’re looking for a giant all-in-one option that can hold your desktop PC and multiple gaming monitors or something more compact that can fit in a cramped space. With any luck, this guide to buying a standing desk will help you consider a few things.
A standing desk converter, or an adjustable standing desk? Standing desk converters are devices that rest on top of your desk and raise up and down so you can stand and work. Whereas, an adjustable standing desk is a full-size desk frame that whole work surface moves up and down.
If you’re into standing most of the time then a standing desk converter is a great choice. It has a deeper work surface which provides more comfortable reading distance and its own keyboard tray as well as tablet stand.
If you want to switch from sitting to standing more often, you may want to get an adjustable standing desk. A sit/stand reminder system and programmable presets where you can save your favorite seated or standing heights.
Here is a guide you can follow if you are on the taller end of the spectrum: What is the Correct Height for a Standing Desk? (Especially if You are Tall)
Start Standing has done some research and price comparisons for you. Take a look at their guide to buying a standing desk guide.
https://www.startstanding.org/standing-desks/best-standing-desks/#
Whether or not a desk was motorized is an important consideration. The last thing you want to be doing while working is trying to jack a desk up into position. Motorized desks also tend to be more stable when compared to hand cranked versions.
How much do you want to spend ? Typically a desk converter cost less than a full sit/stand desk.
Sources
https://sitstanddeskconversion.com/what-is-the-correct-height-for-a-standing-desk
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