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Flexion in Sitting Sit on the edge of a steady chair with your knees and feet well apart and let your hands rest between your legs (Fig. 4.6a). You are now ready to commence Exercise 6. Bend your trunk forward and touch the floor with your hands (Fig. 4. 6b). Return immediately to the starting position. Each time you repeat this movement cycle, you must try to bend down a little further so that in the end you have reached the maximum possible degree of flexion and your head is as close as possible to the floor. The exercise can be made more effective by holding on to your ankles with your hands and pulling yourself down further (Figs. 4.6cSitting Correctly for Prolonged Periods If at the present time you have pain resulting from factors other correct posture and . It may take up to a •pain of postural [lroves, and you will JSI:ure. The pain 'will l allow yourself to in completely painfree never again should then release the lastl( that you do not allow 1 have reached the com b any length of time. Jonlosis in the low hal constant attention am:l l\llenever you sit in a he Lordosis ed how to find ~ good sitting ossible to sit in ~riods, as it is a rable strain and I[cessive periods e pain. To sit .rrectly you aDIicting mankind. Il slipped disc, lumbag auses pain extendin To most people 10 without warning and mMties of Jiving. m sleep; and then, just amte pain we are us ...,} simply seek relic x

IF THE PAIN IS MORE TO ONE SIDE AND NOT REDUCING, MOVE HIPS AWAY FROM THE PAINFUL SIDE AND DO EXERCISES 2 AND 3. IIODS tis will eventually adopt a ilion for a few minutes, Dme tired and relax. Our sitting posture (Fig. 3.1). ~ for long enough, it will !in will arise when we IrOlonged periods. Once habit and is maintained :m of the discs contained ovements as well as

of the bodv above it, ttting and to the feet when nmbar spine, providing a d lower half of the body, mer function in weight I-spine posture of animals liscs between the r weights. In addition, the lDVes that ingeniously Vert Mooney, MD Professor of Orthopaedics UCSD OrthoMed Medical Director University of California San Diego-La Jolla, California, U.S.A. Monitor for signs of centralization. If your symptoms are moving toward the center of your spine, that's a sign the press-up exercise may be helpful for you. more or less horizontal position and the com­ pressive forces that exist in upright man do not occur. In human beings, the For the ne] Exercises 1, 2 frequency of 1 should be the in Significant After a few distributed m Once this occ and continue Are in Signifi~ away from thj The secone performed wi benefit for a J The effecti pelvis down 1] simple deviCf board with a: waistline. Thi between the :