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Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 40 No. 26. October 3 1977

Posture

Posture

If you suffer from fatigue, tiredness, cramping pain, pins and needles, then take a look at how you are sitting. 20,000 spinal injuries are reported every year caused by bad posture or bad work habit. Being uncomfortable causes fatigue and tiredness the result of sitting for too long in a cramped position or sitting on the wrong type of chair. Clothing too can influence the way we sit.

Shoes can be deforming in the growing (till 25 yrs), changing the joint structure of the legs and hips. Don't let fashion dictate what you wear. Be comfortable.

The standard chair can be deforming as in it we sit, generally, on the muscles at the back of the thigh which squashes the sciatic nerves causing pins and needles and pain; instead of on the bones of the buttock. Crossing the legs in one of the causes of varicose veins, interferring with circulation to lower limb and feet. Have you ever suffered from cold feet in lectures?

Ergonomics is a physical science and is best applied as preventative medicine. Should anyone be interested, an article by James Coe is avaliable at the Student Health Service.