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 60 kilograms on our spine in the offices: Workplace yoga from the expert


Staying home for a long time during the pandemic also left people immobile. Physiotherapist Gülşah Konakoğlu gave suggestions on a workplace yoga not to stay still in the offices along with the new normal. Expressing that being immobile puts a 60-kilogram load on the spine, Konakoğlu said: “We can practice a certain yoga flow or stretching exercises every hour on the day. We can do it for 5 minutes and continue our work.”


Especially office job brings back pain, a stiff neck and stretched shoulders. Stating that working at a desk for more than 8 hours in a fixed position without moving at all exhausts our body, Physiotherapist Lect. Gülşah Konakoğlu from Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU) School of Health Sciences Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation said: “Our back hurts, we put a load on our neck, and our muscles around the hip and shoulder are tightened. Therefore, by adding some of the yoga exercises we know at this point to the office environment, we can increase our energy and keep fit. We wear masks for a long time and our breathing is very important now. We breathe carbon dioxide in these masks. In this sense, we can work by balancing our breath.”

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