Posture · Hips
Sit bones find
Position change · Seated
- How to do it
- Sit and rock gently side to side and front to back until you feel both sit bones on the chair, then sit tall balanced on them.
- Dose
- 25s
- What you should feel
- Your weight land evenly on both sit bones
- Common mistake
- Perching on the tailbone or slumping off the sit bones.
- Make it easier
- Simply shift your weight from side to side.
- Avoid this movement if
- Sitting on the sit bones is acutely painful.
- Why DeskBreak uses it
- A quick way to change how you are sitting. There is no perfect posture, but there is a different one.
Stop this movement if it causes sharp or worsening pain, numbness, weakness or dizziness.
Evidence
General movement principle.
- "Sit Up Straight": time to re-evaluate (Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, 2019)