This might be purely anecdotal as I don't know the exact causes for it off the top of my head, but I'd like to add sciatica to the list of possible conditions t

This might be purely anecdotal as I don't know the exact causes for it off the top of my head, but I'd like to add sciatica to the list of possible conditions that may develop from standing too long. I know for me at least, I never had symptoms of it until I had a job that required lots of standing around. I would still walk around a fair bit and all that as well, but there were noticeably long periods of stationary standing too. If you're not familiar with sciatica, it starts with a numbing of the right leg usually, and can develop into an all out debilitatingly painful burning sensation that can flare up at any relatively small stress on the legs. Well, I got that, and it's not fun. I had to get some orthotics to help mitigate the pain, but to this day I still get pretty bad flare ups if I do any kind of stationary standing that totals more than 20mins in a day without the orthotics; the numbness begins closer to the 10min mark though, so all out debility is easier to prevent. Walking for long periods of time is fine, it's just standing that's painful. And I stopped working at that standing job over 4 years ago now, with no other noticeable constant stressors going on since. So yeah, no standing desks for me unfortunately. Makes going to some concerts a pain on the ass too, which sucks, but that's another story.