It is said that there is a new fashion in white-collar offices recently—

Make no mistake,

They’re not being made to stand on a ledge by their boss!

Stand up office

It has become a fashion in some offices nowadays

And an active choice for many white-collar workers.

You’ve been making excuses for sitting and saving meat.

Now, here’s the chance—

Let’s have a look at the action of the small partners how to say —

Kangchu Pro: sitting at work for a long time causes my cervical vertebra and cauda vertebra to have problems. For the sake of health, I changed to the desk and desk to work standing up. For a while, well, now I feel pain in my back every day…

Jie is discussed: popular stand office now, it is said to be able to refresh one’s mind, raise working efficiency, still can burn calorie inadvertently, have the effect of the healthy model, won’t sit big buttock!

RedLiu_XMU: stand office 3 days, the waist does not ache, efficiency also is tall many! Time is long crus is a bit tired!

Nana sauce OO: lifting platform, can stand office, comfortable and convenient, really is the artifact!

Aladengluo hello: xi-xi xi Get neck pain on the rise desk standing office skills

Cervical vertebra good! The tailbone doesn’t hurt anymore! Can also shape weight loss!……

However! Back sour leg pain but then ~

In fact, for the standing office, this way of good or bad discussion, at home and abroad has not stopped.

The yes

According to a report published in the European journal of preventive cardiology, as scientists have found that workers who want to lose weight at work without changing their eating habits need to stand for six hours a day. The study found that the average difference in energy expenditure was 0.15 calories per minute, or 54 extra calories, and three kilograms of meat a year.

The opposition

In a study published in the latest issue of the journal Ergonomics, researchers recruited 20 volunteers to stand and work for two hours to observe changes in body sensation, cognitive function, muscle status, activity, lower limb swelling, and psychological state, Xinhua reported. The results showed that the volunteers’ general discomfort increased “significantly” and their reaction speed and mental state deteriorated. Only, the ability to solve problems has increased. “Standing for long periods of time may have [negative] effects on health and productivity… Standing instead of sitting must be used with caution.

So, what about standing at work? Small new consulted the specialized subject doctor in Shanghai. “Bow your head, sit for a long time, work in front of a computer, and the neck pain, lower back pain, even dizziness, so many white-collar workers are very troubled.” In Guiyang combine traditional Chinese and western medicine hospital affiliated to Shanghai University of traditional Chinese medicine massage wu-Quan sun, director of the department’s view, the current popular stand office may be affected by some inspired to doctors’ orders that patients often change posture, “highly appropriate, if the table stood office can avoid sedentary damage in the waist, or rather, solved the part because of the sitting position is not straight or seat time is too long on the cause of low back pain, back or neck pain”. However, Sun stressed that this is not a cure-all method, he analyzed the problem of standing office from the following perspectives —

Above all, it is the harm to the human body that keeps certain one body position for a long time.

“Many people worry that bad posture such as’ gee you lying down ‘will have a bad effect on your waist and so on. In fact, even if a posture is correct and you stay still long enough, it will still cause damage to you.”

Sun explained that because the muscles used to maintain the force in different positions are different, the muscles and joints associated with holding a position for too long can be damaged by excessive fatigue. Therefore, must guarantee sits, stands the posture prompt conversion.

Second, standing up using a computer, especially a laptop, can’t completely eliminate the harm of using a computer for a long time. If the table is high enough, the head can be avoided, but the shoulders and upper limbs can rise, causing tension and fatigue, Dr. Sun said. Therefore, if you choose to work standing, the height of the desk must be adjusted to the appropriate height. At the same time, standing for long periods of time can cause other new problems.

Sun wu-Quan doctor takes bazaar business member to give an example, the business member of a station whole day besides neck ache is not common outside, lumbago is the biggest problem possibly, still include hemorrhoids, varicose vein, the problem such as the swollen foot.

The doctor advised

Sun wu-Quan reminds, corresponding to the requirement that sits a job to the chair, the choice of the shoe when standing job also is particularly important. The height, shape, and stiffness of the sole of the shoe can have different effects on the lower limbs and wrist of the body when standing, and may even affect the cervical spine. For example, high heels of women will promote the lumbar front, for the lumbar spondylolisthesis, the curve of this front will aggravate the slippage, there will be unbearable waist pain, even numbness in the lower limbs.

In addition, the long-standing or sitting position will make the change or motion to reduce damage, the neck can be looked up, spin, combat training, shrugging his shoulders, chest expansion, such as sports to relieve fatigue, increase strength, the waist will be next to squat, leg lifts, rotating, suspension, step stool, such as ease the discomfort, improve blood supply, of course, if there are conditions, noon lie low for a while, can improve the condition of the wrist pain.

So the question is — do you want to work standing up or not?

The doctor gave a somewhat Buddhist answer: of course it’s good to be happy at work. If standing makes you comfortable, go ahead.