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Why your lower back hurts when you sit

By Symon1 min read

An empty office chair beside a desk

The lower back is built for load and for movement, and it copes badly with load in the absence of movement. That is essentially what a long meeting is.

The half-hour rule

TODO(client): to be written. The section should cover why changing position beats finding the right one, what to do when you cannot leave the chair, and the two positions that unload the spine fastest.

  • Stand up before it hurts, not after
  • Two minutes of hip movement beats twenty minutes of stretching your back
  • A bad day is not a setback — it is a normal part of the pattern
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Symon, Cirque du Soleil artist and founder of Move Better

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