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Article: SITTING pretty; Mel Hunter sits up straight and gets to the bottom of back problems caused by bad posture.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- October 21, 2000
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We spend hours at work each day yet few of us actually take the trouble to improve our office lives and make changes which will be beneficial in the long term.
We sit for days hunched up over our computers, barely taking a breather and then wonder why our muscles are knotted and twisted and our backs are beginning to ache.
This is one of the reasons that the physiotherapy team at the Birmingham Nuffield Hospital has used this year's European Week for Safety and Health at Work to highlight simple ways of reducing musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) risks in the ...