You Are Sitting in the Middle of a Back Pain Epidemic
Category: WELLNESS
Prolonged sitting, like at a computer, puts a kind of chokehold on the disc, cutting off the blood supply it needs. This combination of pressure and the concurrent decrease in blood and the nutrients it carries to the discs increases the back's risk of injury.
By Vijay Vad, M.D., Contributor
Sports medicine specialist, Hospital for Special Surgery; Facu..., 2013-04-30