Old times new times

Surreptitious blogging from the office continues.
I can only do this when work is..... Dare I say it? Will I curse myself if I put it down in text? It's actually.... easy going right about now.

So here's an interesting article on back pain.

"A 135-degree body-thigh sitting posture was demonstrated to be the best biomechanical sitting position, as opposed to a 90-degree posture, which most people consider normal," said study author, Waseem Amir Bashir, a researcher at the University of Alberta Hospital in Canada. "Sitting in a sound anatomic position is essential, since the strain put on the spine and its associated ligaments over time can lead to pain, deformity and chronic illness."

Back pain, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, is the most common cause of work-related disability in the United States. It costs Americans nearly $50 billion annually. Sitting appears to be a major cause of this ailment.

"We were not created to sit down for long hours, but somehow modern life requires the vast majority of the global population to work in a seated position," Bashir said. "This made our search for the optimal sitting position all the more important."

Isn't it funny how the more advanced humanity gets, the more we open ourselves to nastier and nastier problems? Sometimes I wonder if we shouldn't just hark back to older, simpler times.


Oh well.