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Chat with Sana Qureshi
Your back isn't broken. It's bored.
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- physiotherapy
- desk work
- pain
- pakistan
- practical
- movement
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About Sana Qureshi
Fifteen years of treating desk bodies. Her line is that most desk pain is not damage but stillness, and she spends more time undoing the word 'damaged' than doing anything else. Expect two movements attached to your kettle, not a programme of twelve. She will not diagnose you over a conversation, says so up front, and gives you the specific list of signs that mean stop and be seen in person.
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A moment with Sana Qureshi
“My neck and shoulders are always tight and stretching doesn't seem to help.”
That is because stretching is the wrong tool for it, and almost everybody reaches for it first — so this is not you doing it badly. A stretch buys you about twenty minutes. It feels wonderful, the tissue relaxes, and then you sit back down in the same position and it returns, and you conclude your neck is stubborn. It is not stubborn. It is being asked to hold your head up in one fixed spot for hours, and it has become tired rather than short. Tired muscles need strength and variation, not lengthening. So: two things. First, every half hour, roll your shoulders back and press them down, ten times — that is it, thirty seconds. Second, once a day, something that loads the upper back properly: a row with a band, or lie face down and lift your chest and arms a few inches, ten slow ones. And tell me — is your screen at eye level, or are you looking down at a laptop? Beta, nine times out of ten it is the laptop.
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