Is Sitting up Straight Actually Good Posture?

Spines are naturally curved, not straight, so what good posture actually looks like isn’t as straightforward as you might think.

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Sources:

Global Burden of Disease
https://ard.bmj.com/content/73/6/968
https://www.nhs.uk/news/lifestyle-and-exercise/back-pain-leading-cause-of-disability-study-finds/

Dextrocardia and spinal rotation
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19506918
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16741456

Sitting advice
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/24/649169060/cant-get-comfortable-in-your-chair-heres-what-you-can-do
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/08/13/636025077/to-fix-that-pain-in-your-back-you-might-have-to-change-the-way-you-sit

Sedentary behavior
https://health.gov/news/blog-bayw/2013/01/decreasing-sedentary-behavior-and-physical-inactivity-by-moving-more-and-sitting-less/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0004951414602877
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22951407

No one definition of posture
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1356689X12000938
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09593980151143228

Wheelchair lung capacity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003999305014723

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