Are you Sitting Comfortably..........?

At the end of last week I mentioned that I was teaming up with a local company Saxen Ltd as they provide good quality furniture, ergonomically designed for your health. Now I am going to tell you as to why it is important to have the correct furniture, or at least why it is important to sit correctly at all times. Look at this:

Are you sitting like that as you read this? (Note to self, sit up) You can see from this just what your spine is doing if you sit at your desk in this position. Imagine what that does to your posture if you have a desk job and sit like this for hours on end! Chiropractic will help you straighten up the spine, but if you then go back to sitting like this, you will only put it back again. My job as a McTimoney Chiropractor is to advise you as to what you need to do to get long lasting relief. Contrary to what people think, I do not want to see you coming back week after week for ever to straighten you out. That is only good for my pocket, but does little for your long-term health. My aim is to get you back to health and then do check ups at regular intervals but generally no closer than 3 months apart. If we feel that you need treatment more regular than that, then we need to be looking at something else to help you get long term benefit. That could be massage, nutritional advice, looking at the furniture that you use, that sort of thing.

Here's the correct positioning of equipment which we should all adopt.

OK so I am no longer going to sit at my desk, I am heading over to Saxen to see what they have to help me!