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The past year has seen us living cooped up indoors, working from laptops on kitchen counters or on sofas and making do with what’s available. Most people can’t afford the luxury of a proper desk set up in their homes. One of the (many) knock-on effects of the pandemic is an increased reporting of general back pain, as well as hip, neck and shoulder niggles.
This is partly due to makeshift office setups – and more significantly, I think, to the reduction in overall movement lockdown has caused. Pre-pandemic, we’d wrack up thousands of inconsequential steps a day commuting, seeing people and doing things. For a lot of people, even with their daily walk or jog, they’re not moving as much as before – particularly over winter, when the effects of lockdown have hit the hardest. We sit, motionless for hours at a time. And then the pain creeps in.
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