Headaches and Memory Loss

Believe it or not, but sitting for long periods of time can affect how your brain functions. The human brain is an organ, and like all organs in the body, it needs a constant supply of blood and oxygen in order to function properly. Movement helps facilitate the movement of blood. Your heart naturally pumps harder, and it’s easier when your body is moving to move blood around. This keeps a steady supply of oxygen to your brain to keep it performing optimally. When you sit for long periods of time gaming or working, you can suffer from cognition recognition and depression or anxiety.

Neck Pain

While you are sitting, if your workstation or gaming cockpit is not set up ergonomically, you can find yourself craning your neck in odd positions. At the time, you probably don’t realize it, but you will definitely feel it in the morning after you sleep. Cell phones are even worse since people tend to hold phones in their hands and then look down. This can put unnatural strain on your vertebrae, which can lead to aches, pain, strains, and poor posture down the road.

Shoulders

Your shoulders can easily slouch while you are sitting at a desk or in a gaming chair not designed with ergonomics in mind, such as Obutto’s ultimate ergonomic workstation and gaming chairs. Slouching puts a lot of stress on your shoulders, which can cause your trapezius muscles to pinch together, causing tension and pain. Having your arms extended for typing and for driving can contribute to shoulder pain as well. As your shoulders sag, your head leans too far forward, which means your neck and back muscles have to work harder to compensate for this. Slouching also compresses your ribs, causing you to breathe shallower, depleting your body of oxygen, building up lactic acid in your muscles, and causing you to tire quickly — and the blood flow to your legs slows down.

Back

Having back pains from sitting too long while gaming or working is the most popular complaint. Most of this is caused by having poor posture, which can be fixed easily with the best ergonomic workstation offered by Obutto for gamers and workers. Furthermore, sitting for long periods of time can lead to the premature degeneration of discs, an increased risk for a herniated disc. Collagen around your ligaments and tendons can harden as well due to inactivity, further contributing to disc injuries.

If you catch yourself shifting your weight a lot while sitting, your pelvic bone can experience inflammation known as bursitis. Your spine could become inactive and inflexible as well because it’s not being moved around, which can cause an increased propensity to be injured.

Abdomen

If you sit for a good portion of the day, you are burning less calories than if you were standing or active. This can lead to weight gain, which tends to accumulate along your stomach and back due to your lack of flexing. Also, when you slouch, your belly sticks out, which can make you appear not as thin as you normally are. Sitting with a straight back with engaged abdominal muscles can help pull in these muscles, tighten your stomach, and help with weight loss.

Hips

Sitting all day can cause your hip flexors to shrink, which causes them to shorten over time. This results in decreased strength and can cause a loss of mobility, which can lead to an increased risk of falls as you age. Many people require hip replacement surgery, and lack of mobility can be a contributing factor. Sitting with your feet properly aligned, such as with an ergonomic gaming setup that Obutto offers, will not only help align your feet, but it will help align your pelvis as well. Avoid sitting with your legs crossed, and definitely do not sit for extended periods of time on your wallet.

Glutes & Leg Muscles

Probably the part of your body that suffers the most from lack of blood circulation caused by sitting is your legs. This is because your body has to work against gravity to push your blood back up to your heart in order for it to pick up oxygen and nutrients that your body’s cells need. By sitting for long stretches of time, your body has to work harder than normal and some blood can pool in your legs, which can then cause varicose veins or even deep vein thrombosis. Furthermore, the muscles in your legs are the most powerful muscles. They are meant to be used. When you don’t use them, they are at risk of atrophy, or wasting away and weakening.

Bones

As you age, you naturally lose bone mass and density, as well as vital nutrients for health, such as calcium and other minerals. Weaker bones, they are at more of a risk for fractures and osteoporosis. One way to fend off the weakening of your bones and the loss of bone mass is through weight-bearing exercises, as well as by moving around.

Eye Strain

Staring at a screen all day long, every day is not good for you. Humans were not designed to do so. Thus, eye strain is a common complaint amongst gamers and workers. Eye strain can cause vision problems, such as blurred vision and nearsightedness, headaches, insomnia, dry eyes, and even depression.