Part 4 -Postural Performance for Prolonged Sitting

The conclusion of this series is the funnel that beings all the suggestions together, for the purpose of helping you understand how to create comfort in prolonged sitting, especially when suffering back pain.

Purchasing an Ergonomic Office Chair is only part of the solution for relieving back pain, when sitting in a chair.

 Resolving back pain comes through using a combination of internal and external forces that inter-relate with correct sitting balance in an ergonomic chair.

 Sitting in an ergonomic chair will not tell you how to sit to support the sitting position, nor will it tell you what to do, while you are sitting for gaining comfort.

 Comfort is created first by learning how to position your sitting posture into the correct anatomical position that will enable you to remain safely supported, for productive activity throughout the day.

 This is the “relaxed hold’ mechanism, where the spine remains erect and straight above the pelvic region with your feet firmly on the ground, using no muscles tension for holding your spinal position.

 However, you’re sitting posture needs continuous movement throughout the day in muscular and joint movements in your whole skeletal body that keeps the spine moving. Your body is not designed to remain still. It is like a well-oiled machine that will become ‘rusty’ through lack of use.

 Moving our pelvis is the key component for comfortable sitting, which is easy to create by making things on your desk table not so easily accessible. It means that you need to reach for items, which is good for you to stretch out the vertebrae.

 Combining stretching to reach for your telephone with a long deep breathe, increases our capacity for more oxygen. It feeds the tissues in our pelvis, as well as provides a much-needed energy-boost to your overall body.

 The energy-boost is the life-giving force that drives our body to becoming more active and ready to accomplish any task in prolonged sitting.

All my words are honest and real, as I practice what I preach. I have gone through so much back pain myself. Now I cycle everywhere, and so by sitting on my pelvis, it has removed the scoliosis in my back. Now there is no back pain.

 How do you break the pattern of pain and immobility, when the spiral that has no beginning and therefore no end?

 Everyone will give you the same advice, but using different words: “Exercise and eat less to lose weight”. My advice has a softer approach, hopefully with more appeal; because you will use functional exercise in daily performance that is already used in daily living.