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If you’re a sloucher, here’s some good news

POSITIVE POSTURE

Often, a posture assigned to teenagers and disaffected youth, slouching is traditionally considered to be a “bad” posture, with some claiming it will damage your spine and cause pain.

The term itself hails from medieval Norse meaning “lazy fellow” and later, the middle English word meaning “walking, sitting or standing with a loose attitude”.

In the past 150 years or so, posture has come to be associated with

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