How to Prevent Locking Your Knees and Hips When Standing to Avoid Health Issues on the Job

How to Prevent Locking Your Knees and Hips When Standing to Avoid Health Issues on the Job. Presented by Dr. Todd Martin. Locking the knees and hips is a common practice for those who stand for long periods. This is especially true at work. This practice puts stress and pressure on the joints, misaligns the spine, and reduces fluid movement of the arms. The overall result is an increase risk of injury, pain, and loss of ability to work. This is bad for both employees and employers. It contributes to both absenteeism and presenteeism. As a whole, it costs the country billions of dollars, and it is preventable. I will share my quick tips for how to keep your knees and hips unlocked and keep your body mobile while you are at work. This could save your joints and your job. Learn how to stand correctly for long periods without knee pain. This tips apply principles from Tai Chi and from The Walking Code.

Thanks for Cathy Sitek for inviting me to share my thoughts on this subject. She works in cooperation with the National Safety Council, and they are doing a major educational push to reduce the impact of MSD (Musculoskeletal Disorders) in the workplace. Of course, this type of issue can occur just as easily outside of work if you stand for long periods.

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Key Tips:
1. Stand with Your Feet Shoulder Width Apart
2. Soften Your Knees
3. Allow Your Body to Rotate Fluidly Around the Spine
4. Use Your Lower Abs to Tuck the Pelvis and Release the Knees
5. Hollow the Chest and Round the Back. This is one of the Essential Principles of Tai Chi, and it will help insure you are in an active position with your arms moving from your core, not from your shoulders.

The same principles that lock your knees when standing can lead to locked knees when walking. I talk about this all the time in my other videos, so if you are prone to locking your knees, check out my Walking Code videos for the best tips out there on how to move properly from the Core.

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