Well-well Mr. or Mrs. Daddy Warbucks, you are finally moving on up to that delux apartment in the sky, where fish don't fry in the kitchen and peas don't burn on the grill. But getting your turn at bat in the big leagues just might be putting a pain in your back.
In 1977, a study was conducted that looked at low back pain occurrence in lower- and middle-income countries around the world. It was speculated that the populated lower income rural countries would exhibit higher rates of low back pain due to harder physical labor, versus higher-income populations where urbanizied desk-jockeys predominated. Researchers unexpectedly found that the opposite was true. Further, it was demonstrated that low back pain was significantly predominate among workers in enclosed workspaces such as offices.
My conclusion: don't worry little underlings and worker-bees, the "man" is going to get his right in the back.
Low back pain is one of the major forms of musculoskeletal degeneration seen in the adult population, affecting nearly 80 percent of all adults. Researches have shown that men who spend over half their workday sitting in a car have a 300 percent increased chance of disc herniation, bringing new meaning to "on the road again."
So my "Nanky" (grandmother) was right, idleness really is the devil's workshop.
2 comments:
Are you suggesting my back problems are due to laziness????
Of course not..You just need to get some office exercise like:
1. closing door elevator dash 2. water-cooler toss 3. flag pole climbing 4. trash can basketball 5. roof top soccer 6. wet floor slide 6. rubberband paper clip fight 7. 100 meter desk hurdles 8. rolling chair race 9. high ledge walk/run 10. parking lot derby race
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