Article by: Mother Nature Network

It’s a scenario that many of us have had the misfortune of experiencing: lower back pain, shoulder strain, a cramped neck and a general sense of malaise that stems from spending an average of 8.9 hours per day sitting in an office chair that offers little or no support to the parts of our body that need it most. No, it’s not necessarily those five doughnuts that you scarfed during that 9 a.m. staff meeting that did it.