Reflections on sitting
I write this blog as I sit in car after about 6 hours of driving. We are travelling home from a Thanksgiving trip to Sacramento and I am reading a recent LA Times article, “Don’t just sit there. Really” http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/25/health/la-he-dont-sit-20130525 And I am understanding why I feel like the life is being sucked out of me as I sit—every hour of sitting cuts about 22 minutes from my lifespan according to the article. "Sitting is the new smoking," says Anup Kanodia, a physician and researcher at the Center for Personalized Health Care at Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center. As physical therapists, we are blessed to have a job where we rarely sit, but we are constantly battling the ill-effects of sitting in our clients. Tight hip flexors and hamstrings, weakened LE muscles, weakened respiratory function, deconditioning - the list goes on and on. What the article brings to light is that this is not simply a proble