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- What you sit on affects how you sit, and this
may influence how your back feels and works.
- Back pain is an increasing and major health
problem and the cause of the greatest loss of
working days. There is an epidemic of back
trouble which is costing the NHS £480 million
every year.
- Posture is deteriorating. Poor posture leads to
back trouble. Poor seats encourage or even
force one into poor posture. Sitting on seats
which force you to slump weaken the back,
and leave it vulnerable to injury. Slumping and
poor posture become the norm.
- We know that it is important to sleep on a
good firm mattress, and to have a good office
chair, but we have not made this link in
relation to the seats we buy for our homes. We
tend to think that sprawling on a very soft sofa
is a luxurious, relaxing experience. But too
much sprawling can harm us. We don't need
to sit bolt upright all the time, but it is
important to have good support while relaxing.
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