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Sitting Posture during Prolonged Computer Typing with and without a Wearable Biofeedback Sensor

Prolonged sitting combined with an awkward posture might contribute to the increased risks of developing spinal pain. Maintaining an upright sitting posture is thus often suggested, especially nowadays when people spend longer periods in the sitting posture for occupational or leisure activities. Ma...

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Autores principales: Kuo, Yi-Liang, Huang, Kuo-Yuan, Kao, Chieh-Yu, Tsai, Yi-Ju
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8161121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34069579
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105430
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author Kuo, Yi-Liang
Huang, Kuo-Yuan
Kao, Chieh-Yu
Tsai, Yi-Ju
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description Prolonged sitting combined with an awkward posture might contribute to the increased risks of developing spinal pain. Maintaining an upright sitting posture is thus often suggested, especially nowadays when people spend longer periods in the sitting posture for occupational or leisure activities. Many types of assistive devices are commercially available to help computer users maintain an upright sitting posture. As the technology advances, wearable sensors that use microelectromechanical technology are designed to provide real-time biofeedback and promote adjusting posture actively. However, whether such wearable biofeedback sensors could assist adjusting sitting posture in computer users during prolonged typing remains unknown. This study aimed to investigate the effects of a wearable biofeedback sensor on maintaining an upright sitting posture. Twenty-one healthy young adults were recruited and performed a 1-h computer typing task twice, with and without using the active biofeedback device. The sagittal spinal posture during computer typing was measured using a three-dimensional motion analysis system. Using the wearable biofeedback sensor significantly decreased the neck flexion (p < 0.001), thoracic kyphotic (p = 0.033), and pelvic plane (p = 0.021) angles compared with not using the sensor. Computer users and sedentary workers may benefit from using wearable biofeedback sensors to actively maintain an upright sitting posture during prolonged deskwork.
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spelling pubmed-81611212021-05-29 Sitting Posture during Prolonged Computer Typing with and without a Wearable Biofeedback Sensor Kuo, Yi-Liang Huang, Kuo-Yuan Kao, Chieh-Yu Tsai, Yi-Ju Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Prolonged sitting combined with an awkward posture might contribute to the increased risks of developing spinal pain. Maintaining an upright sitting posture is thus often suggested, especially nowadays when people spend longer periods in the sitting posture for occupational or leisure activities. Many types of assistive devices are commercially available to help computer users maintain an upright sitting posture. As the technology advances, wearable sensors that use microelectromechanical technology are designed to provide real-time biofeedback and promote adjusting posture actively. However, whether such wearable biofeedback sensors could assist adjusting sitting posture in computer users during prolonged typing remains unknown. This study aimed to investigate the effects of a wearable biofeedback sensor on maintaining an upright sitting posture. Twenty-one healthy young adults were recruited and performed a 1-h computer typing task twice, with and without using the active biofeedback device. The sagittal spinal posture during computer typing was measured using a three-dimensional motion analysis system. Using the wearable biofeedback sensor significantly decreased the neck flexion (p < 0.001), thoracic kyphotic (p = 0.033), and pelvic plane (p = 0.021) angles compared with not using the sensor. Computer users and sedentary workers may benefit from using wearable biofeedback sensors to actively maintain an upright sitting posture during prolonged deskwork. MDPI 2021-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8161121/ /pubmed/34069579 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105430 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Sitting Posture during Prolonged Computer Typing with and without a Wearable Biofeedback Sensor
title Sitting Posture during Prolonged Computer Typing with and without a Wearable Biofeedback Sensor
title_full Sitting Posture during Prolonged Computer Typing with and without a Wearable Biofeedback Sensor
title_fullStr Sitting Posture during Prolonged Computer Typing with and without a Wearable Biofeedback Sensor
title_full_unstemmed Sitting Posture during Prolonged Computer Typing with and without a Wearable Biofeedback Sensor
title_short Sitting Posture during Prolonged Computer Typing with and without a Wearable Biofeedback Sensor
title_sort sitting posture during prolonged computer typing with and without a wearable biofeedback sensor
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8161121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34069579
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105430
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