Pain in the Neck? Change for Correct Sitting Posture!

Do you suffer from neck pain? Most possibly, it is related to poor sitting posture. Neck pain seems very common problem among office staff and those who undertake sedentary jobs. Sitting in the office chairs or even in the car seat for a rather long time is bad to our body. But we can hardly choose not to sit. Then how to avoid pain in the neck?

Prolonged sitting itself is not good to our health. We can take more rest during our work hours. We need to get better office chairs or the chairs with ergonomic design for more comfortable sitting. But most often, we may ignore the right sitting posture. Poor sitting posture may just overly stretch our spinal muscles or soft tissues. Prolonged overstretching of these structures will finally result in pain. Besides,when we feel uncomfortable after prolonged sitting, we may change our posture subconsciously, and sometimes the seemingly comfortable sitting posture is wrong and the potential pain may be even worse.

If we pay attention to right posture, changing position may take the stretch off our soft tissues and then the pain stops. This can just avoid lasting damage. Such pain purely caused by poor sitting posture may stop as long as we change how we sit. We can never ignore any sign of pain in the neck. In that way, we may continue the state of overstretching our soft tissues. Over the time, other structures may be affected and later we may feel pain in arms or legs.

People with sedentary jobs tend to develop lower back or neck pain and this has much to do with the fact that we sit with a rounded back for hours. It is time for correcting the poor sitting posture so as to avoid the progressively worsening pain.

The point in correct sitting posture lies in the curve in our lower back. To develop a right curve in the lower back or lordosis while sitting on a stool or slouch, we need to sitting up as much as possible to keep the curve inwards. We need to relax the lordosis strain and then our upper part of the spine will get improved. Make sure our head is not poking forwards. Tuck our chin in and pull back our shoulders.

It is sometimes not easy thing to keep a correct sitting posture for a long time without lower back support. We need some tools. We need ergonomic chairs when we sit in the office for working. We need car seats of ergonomic design for adequate support to our lower back.