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Find your primal posture and sit without back pain: Esther Gokhale at TEDxStanford

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Pain, injury and rehabHow the body worksBack and neck painMobility and flexibility

Esther Gokhale demonstrates posture techniques based on non-industrial cultures to help reduce back pain and improve sitting habits.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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hackaflockain Hacker News • Recommends

On “We have an epidemic of bad posture”

I haven't read all the other comments so not sure if this has been mentioned already. The modern concepts of posture may be wrong. I have a curved butt to shoulder area. It makes me look somewhat duck like. However, I never have any back aches etc. I know of people who are straight as a plank, and complain constantly of aches and pains. This TED talk will explain why curved is better than straight: link to this video
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On “To Fix Back Pain, You Might Have To Change The Way You Sit”

I read about this a long time ago in a book by Esther gokhale called lose the back pain. I think she called it stack sitting iirc. There was another thing in the book that has really helped me over the years and it's called the shoulder roll. The way to do it is to roll your shoulders in counter clockwise motion and leave it when they move back. It really does help while sitting. That book was full of such things like hip hinging, walking properly, etc and pictures incidentally also of Indian men who do hard labor much like the loom guy in the article. Here is a relevant video from her: link to this video
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On “Ask HN: What do you do to avoid back pain?”

link to this video I found this Ted talk helped me with some lower back and leg issues. I don't do exactly what she demonstrates in the video, but I find focusing on the 'tail out' posture helps a lot. Also regular breaks and going for walks.
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