How harmful is crossing your legs for a long time?

Usually, we are used to crossing our legs in our work and life. I remember I skipped my leg for three years at my last job. I'm glad I'm not in the hospital, but it has caused me many symptoms. Let me talk about how harmful it will be to cross your legs, hoping to bring you some reference.

Unilateral lumbar muscle strain

When crossing our legs, our spine is bent, and one side of our body will be passively elongated, resulting in "unilateral lumbar muscle strain." After a long time, backache may come to you. If you have a backache inadvertently, you can think about whether you have the habit of crossing your legs for a long time.

Calf valgus

This is my real experience and lesson. My legs were straight and super thin. My last job was the habit of crossing my legs. I was lazy and stopped exercising. One day, I suddenly found that my calf was everted, which was super ugly. Later, I did yoga for half a year to recover. It's terrible. I can't even wear a skirt because my calves are not good.

lateral curvature

Crossing your legs for a long time is easy to cause scoliosis, because when crossing your legs, the forces on both sides are uneven, so the forces on the left and right sides of the spine are not equal, which will passively lead to the imbalance of the forces on the left and right soft tissues of the spine, which will lead to scoliosis over time. Mainly pain. At that time, I obviously felt a backache on one side. Later, I corrected my sitting posture and hot compress cupping for a while.

Leg varicose veins or thromboembolism

Anyone who believes in "crossing one's legs" knows that if we keep this posture, it won't take long, and when we want to put down our legs, we will find pain and numbness in our legs. In fact, this is because in the process of "crossing your legs", the blood circulation in our legs is blocked, which may even lead to varicose veins or thromboembolism in our legs.

Sexual physiological diseases

"Crossing your legs", whether men or women, will lead to some physical diseases over time. Women's "crossing their legs" will cause problems of heat dissipation and difficulty breathing in private parts, especially the reproduction of bacteria, which will eventually lead to gynecological diseases.

The harm of crossing your legs is mentioned above. Let's talk about what kind of sitting posture is good for your health.

Step 65438 +0: Open your feet boldly while sitting.

In fact, as long as you spread your legs apart, you can solve most of the problems of sitting in the wrong position. The leg extension should not be too small. Please imagine yourself as an ancient warrior, with your legs spread out left and right.

Step 2: Hold your chest, slowly push your waist forward, and feel your waist slightly folded back.

Many people don't know that "holding your head high" from primary school to university is actually a wrong posture that makes your waist bend backwards. The correct sitting posture of Dantian is between "hunched back" and "bent back", so please hold your chest out and push your waist forward before you start to adjust your sitting posture.

The third step: slowly return your back to the posture, stop when you feel the abdominal force, and keep your posture.

Slowly put your waist back bit by bit, and the tense muscles in your back will gradually relax during the process, and you will feel a slight stress on your abdomen for a moment-this is the sitting posture in Dantian!

Don't panic even if your body has started to show the above symptoms. It is also very beneficial to do some exercise every day to correct the spine. As long as you can resolutely get rid of crossing your legs and get rid of this bad habit from your life, your body will gradually return to normal.