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  2. Ergonomic hazard - Wikipedia

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    Sitting with a hunched back: This posture can strain the neck, shoulders, and back muscles. Reaching overhead or out to the side for extended periods: This can lead to shoulder and neck pain. Kneeling or squatting for prolonged periods: This can cause knee and hip discomfort.

  3. 5 easy exercises for your head and neck to alleviate desk job ...

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    Weakened glutes from sitting, for example, can lead to stress on the knees and lower back; tired hip flexors can alter pelvic movement, leading to lower back pain. Which is concerning seeing as ...

  4. Complications of prolonged standing - Wikipedia

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    This decreases the venous return, and so there will be decreased cardiac output, which ultimately causes systolic blood pressure to fall (hypotension). This hypotension may lead the subject to faint or to have other symptoms of hypotension. Standing requires about 10% more energy than sitting. [2] [better source needed]

  5. 18 Ways A Desk Job Ruins Your Body - AOL

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    If you're used to the hours of sedentary, stressful working conditions that come with your office job, you may want to know that this kind of working environment is killing you a lot faster than ...

  6. You've been sitting at your desk all wrong, says science - AOL

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  7. Repetitive strain injury - Wikipedia

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    Miners and poultry workers, for example, must make repeated motions which can cause tendon, muscular, and skeletal injuries. [10] [11] Jobs that involve repeated motion patterns or prolonged posture within a work cycle, or both, may be repetitive. Young athletes are predisposed to RSIs due to an underdeveloped musculoskeletal system.

  8. How Sitting All Day Is Killing Your Body - AOL

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    By Lindsay Olson If you're like 86% of American workers, you sit all day for your job. Add to that the time you spend sitting on the couch after work watching television, reading, playing games or ...

  9. Nerve compression syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Clinical diagnosis can often identify compression neuropathy on signs and symptoms alone. While there are variations in how nerves course and branch, the anatomical territory of major nerves do not change from patient to patient. Some forms of nerve entrapment can have characteristic symptoms, such as sitting and pudendal pain.