Spending yet another morning squished into an bus or tram? It might be having a toll on your body as well as your nerves.
Spending yet another morning squished into a bus or tram? It might be having a toll on your body as well as your nerves.comes with more standing room and fewer seats as a selling point
The average standing commuter is possibly using more muscles than they realise, says Professor Timothy Olds from the University of South Australia's School of Health Sciences."You're working a lot of muscles to maintain your posture: your lower hip and your glutes, your back, and also your abdominal muscles to stabilise yourself," he says.
Olds cites previous research on workers in production lines, in which muscles are similarly contracted, have shown higher prevalence of muscular-skeletal problems, lower back pain and neck and shoulder problems. Clay agrees, adding that commuters should try to stand with their feet kept apart to maintain a wide base of support and their weight evenly on both legs, keeping their knees soft so they can rebalance quickly.The concern is that the muscles are not being used in a wide range of motion; they are semi-contracted all the time.
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