As a child, being told to sit or stand up straight may have felt like a nuisance, but those adults in your life were on to something: Good posture helps you stay healthy and pain-free. “It can affect ...

Most of us spend the majority of the day twisted into some sort of contortion in front of a computer screen, looking down at our phone or curled up on the couch. The hunched back, the rounded ...

Rear view of a male freelancer having back problems while sitting at his desk in front of the monitor, feeling the pain in his back and shoulders Ivan Pantic via Getty Images If you spend a lot of ...

A good run can “fix” a lot of what ails you. Put a few miles between yourself and a bad mood, low energy, or an annoying work issue, and you’re bound to finish feeling better than you started. But ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. We all know poor posture is bad for our health, but few realize just how deeply ...

Chronic headaches affect countless people, often pushing them to seek relief through medication and trigger avoidance. However, poor posture emerges as a frequently overlooked factor that contributes ...

Dr. Brennan Spiegel, a gastroenterologist, found a connection between bloating and poor posture. Slouching causes the intestines to compress, making it harder to properly digest food. He said ...

A recent history of the 20th-century movement to fix slouching questions the moral and political dimensions of addressing bad backs over wider public health concerns. Skeletons used in a museum in ...

If you spend a lot of time sitting on your computer or phone, odds are you’ve worried about the effect on your posture.

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