Got neck and back pain? Break up your work day with these 5 exercises for relief
Hunching over screens takes a toll. Movement researchers say you can prevent pain from accumulating by taking quick breaks for movement. Here are 5 exercises to try that take a minute or less.
After staring at a computer screen for hours at a time, the body often gives us a clue that it is stressed: nagging neck and back pain.
To fix the problem, you might have gotten advice to focus on posture or ergonomics, but exercise research points to another strategy as well – taking short spurts of movement throughout the day to release tension and stress in the body.
"As a society, the assumption is that we have pain because of poor posture and slouching," says Kieran O'Sullivan, an associate professor of physiotherapy at the University of Limerick's School of
