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Wait till standing desks have been in fashion for some decades and you'll start seeing stories about people getting Thrombophlebitis in their legs. Seriously,
by geoka9 13y ago
Wait till standing desks have been in fashion for some decades and you'll start seeing stories about people getting Thrombophlebitis in their legs.
Seriously, get a good chair and sit in it. Get up every half an hour or so, also strech your legs while sitting. Raise your toes forcefully to get some blood flowing through your lower legs (this should be done automatically every couple of minutes without thinking). Put your feet on the desk every now and then.
Do some rigorous exercise every couple of hours or so.
And you should be fine.
- JoeKM 13y ago> Wait till standing desks have been in fashion for some decades and you'll start seeing stories about people getting Thrombophlebitis in their legs. Sitting for too long causes Thrombophlebitis too. Standing desks are fine. Just like sitting, you don't stand all day. You take breaks. You move around. The greatest benefit of a standing desk is you're more readily able to take breaks. You're already up. I think anyone with a sitting day job can attest to skipping breaks because of the effort of standing up. Yes, you heard me correctly, and it's true. Sometimes you're so into a problem or issue your brain tells you to skip taking a break because it's not worth the effort of getting up.
- geoka9 13y agoI've seen quite a few older folks who had the condition and they usually shared one thing: their careers involved standing most of their working day (store clerks, masseurs and such). So from my (possibly subjective) experience, I'd say standing all day is worse than sitting all day as far as T-phlebitis goes.