Study Finds: Office Chairs More Dangerous Than Airplanes  

This is very concerning to me. Many people do not realize how important it is to get up and move. Even if you are sitting at your desk you can move your legs by flexing the muscles and extending your legs. Having fitted many people for custom compression stockings or off the shelf stockings, I have seen many who just sit for hours and do not get any form of exercise. I always advised them to get up and walk around or do chair aerobics.

I had been wondering about this myself, thinking that my useage pattern on myLot might be unhealthy. I know it sure messes up my wrists and shoulders. I hereby resolve to get up and walk around periodically while posting to myLot. My other jobs are not sedentary.

Well i do declare If i can respond with the million dollar question I know i am not alone in sitting infront of the computer for 5-6 hrs a day reading and posting in my lot ...so the question how does this affect us I would say that would be classed as sedentary work ???I didnot think any of the members getting 75-100 credits a day at mylot had time to go to work (just kidding )
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There is no danger for me. I don't sit still for very long anywhere. At home I am up and down. The longest that I am in one place is when I sleep. At a desk if I don't get up, I ususaly will twist and move my legs a good bit. I am a pretty busy lady in body and mind.

I know of this already and its really not scary i normally try to move my body around to make sure the blood continues to flow through every part. People just need to remember to get up and move around every now and again

Wow that is no good that if these people are just sitting for this amount of time they have to do a bit of easy exercise and get up and move around that is what is taught in the business colleges for secretaries that I went to I do not understand why people just sit there and not get up and do something so that this will not affect them in this way.

I read that article the other day and at first I was a bit worried because I sit at this computer for a long time. But then I got to thinking, I do get up and walk around a lot. In the morning I keep getting up for coffee and all through the day I am letting something in or out(dogs and cats). Then every once in awhile I have to get up to see what they knocked over or break up a fight or pick up something gross.lol

Yes I work in an office and if I am real buried in a project I will sit for a longer period of time than I should. I try to watch the clock and get up every hour and walk through the office and stand for 5 minutes. Most days this is very easy, except if my phone is ringing off the hook or if the boss is breathing down my nect to get emails out or to get results for a project within a certain length of time. I have had an ankle swelling lately and I think it may be from sitting too long at my desk. I have even thought about buying some those stockings you wera after a hysterectomy to ward off blood clots. I know when I fly to Germany in a few months I plan to wear those stockings.

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Well fortunately my job doesn't require sitting (how I wish it did at times!) I am on the go either in the classroom or at the hospital. Now, the problem is my 'at home' time. Ahem, my time on the computer. Best bring home some blood thinners!!!