Stretch on both sides to keep everything balanced.
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Stretching is beneficial to the overall health of the body and plays a role in reducing musculoskeletal disorders among employees. MSD’s account for more than 600,000 injuries and illnesses and 34 percent of all workdays lost.
Hundreds of thousands of workers sit at a computer or desk all day long. But experts say it doesn’t matter where the sitting takes place – at the office, at school, or in the car; in front of a computer or in front of a television screen – it’s the overall number of hours spent sitting that matters most.
Inactivity or being sedentary increases the pressure on spinal discs by about 40 percent more than standing, according to a 2009 report in Medical News Today.
A study published in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research found that static stretching before a workout reduced participants’ strength in the squat by 8.36 percent, and reduced lower-body stability by 22.68 percent. A research review of 104 studies found that static stretching reduces overall strength in the stretched muscles by almost 5.5 percent.