Sitting for more than six hours a day may literally be pain in the neck.
The researchers said that our lifestyle and work are increasing the risk of neck pain every year, which can lead to heavy medical bills and severe discomfort.
A group of Chinese researchers in a regular study published in the journal, said: “The risk of annual neck pain is increasing, causing the rapid pace of modern society and a change in lifestyle and work habits.” BMC Public HealthHuman
They have linked the increased risk to increasing the “significant” in “motivated behavior” – especially among the young populations – and this change in the remote work is COVID epidemic.
In this case, motivated behavior was defined as sitting on walking hours per day, which included saving low -energy, including watching TV, working on computers and using other pages.
The authors of the study pointed out that motivated behavior is associated with the dangers of cardiovascular disease and other diseases, in addition to other uncomfortable changes such as reducing blood flow to the neck, imbalance in neck muscles, reducing joint mobility and increased intervertebral discs.
To examine the threat, they analyzed the data of 25 studies. These studies included more than 43,000 participants from 13 countries.
Among the potential dangerous behaviors, the use of the worst cell phones was 82 %. However, the chance of neck pain was only reduced to 23 % with a computer, and “watching TV was not an important risk.”
In addition, increasing the low mobility time increases the risk of neck pain. For people sitting for more than six hours a day, the risk of nearly 88 percent was increased compared to those who were not involved in motivated behaviors.
Much of the threat occurs when people are adopting a situation where they bend the neck and close their shoulders.
The authors pointed out: “By increasing the duration of display -based behavior, these habits can endanger the natural biomechanical structure of the neck.”
According to previous research, neck pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders, with approximately 70 % of people experience it at least once.
The problem can be very costly. In the United States, people spend $ 87.6 billion each year for neck and waist pain.
Researchers said the first step to help reduce the risk of subsequent pain is preventive measures for high -risk groups such as women.
“Public health initiatives should encourage reducing motivated behaviors and promoting physical activity to boost neck health and reduce global prevalence of neck pain,” they added.
