FITrest: The Acrive Workstation Solution

Abstract

Prolonged sitting is common in our lives and exist in many settings including the workplace and home. Evidences of prolonged sitting is adversely associated with health outcomes, including type-2 diabetes, premature mortality and cardiovascular risk (Dunstan, Howard, Healy, & Owen, 2012). Prolonged sitting can also be a major cause of back pain, due to the increase stress of the neck, back, arms and legs, thus creating a huge amount of pressure to the back muscles and spinal discs. Sitting in a slouched position can also impact the spinal ligaments by overstretching that eventually strain the spinal discs and cause low-back pain (LBP). LBP is a negative health impact on long-term sickness absence and early retirement (Lötters & Burdorf, 2006). Prolonged sitting could be associated with LBP (Claus, Hides, Moseley, & Hodges, 2008; Makhsous et al., 2009), due to uninterrupted, low-intensity muscle contraction, however, other factors could also be linked to LBP including age, sex, smoking behaviour, occupational lifting, intensity of physical activity and many more (Korshøj et al., 2018)