Can “standing desks” improve productivity?

Can “standing desks” improve productivity? Come on, this is killing the legs of an employee.

“Some time ago, I came across an article which said that standing office is very popular now,” said Dr. Fong. Some research shows that standing office can improve work efficiency. Many famous companies are ready to promote it, and many companies at home and abroad have followed suit.

“I was very surprised because the “long-standing” is the most vulnerable to varicose veins, it is not doing harm to employees? “

And at present varicose vein has not been brought into occupational disease category… So if your boss wants to introduce a standing desk, you can show him this article.

We know that there are many jobs that require standing for long periods of time, such as teachers, traffic police, beauticians, doctors, nurses, hairstylists, salesmen and workers in many factories.

They need to stand for a long time due to the need of work, and the blood circulation to the veins of the lower limbs is easily blocked, cannot return to the heart for a long time, deposition in the veins of the legs and feet, will cause the veins of the lower limbs dilation or venous valve injury, eventually lead to the occurrence of varicose veins.

Maybe we all see, one way or another, people with green blood vessels on their legs, like spider webs, worms twisting the blood vessels, looking a little bit swollen, convex or solid nodules like a burl, that’s varicose veins. Early can behave for crus bilge, alleviate when getting up in the morning, night aggravates. Some patients have numbness and mild pain on the inside of their ankle joints, and some have cramps in their calves at night when they sleep.

These symptoms are mainly caused by the increased load of vein valves in the lower extremities from supine to upright, the most severe swelling after a day’s work, and the most serious congestion in the medial ankle joint due to nutritional disorders, which may lead to local nerve and skin atrophy, numbness and pain.

Symptoms in most patients worsen after prolonged standing or in the afternoon and decrease significantly when lying down or with limb elevation. Varicose veins are closely related to occupation, lifestyle, and age, and often occur in people who need to stand for a long time.

Accordingly, the proposal avoids long-term standing posture in daily life, should move double leg every 15-20 minutes, or alternate standing or the means such as cushion toe accelerates venous blood backflow.

And the female varicose incidence of a disease is higher, one part is high-heeled shoes, so female friend should choose flat shoes when standing for a long time, and put on stretch socks when needing to stand for a long time, through external pressure, help blood circumfluence, prevent the happening of varicose.