Ignoring your posture can cause back pain and affect your health overall. It's easy to overlook the pain that comes from poor posture for a while, but it's your body's way of getting your attention.

Having poor posture over the long term is when you sustain real damage.

It's important to keep your back healthy as you age.

Poor posture forces you to overwork the muscles in your neck and back. Your immune system's efforts to heal those muscles spur inflammation that can lead to arthritis in nearby joints.

In the article below, we'll look at the impact poor posture has on your back and health, and what you can do to prevent it.

If you're like most people, you spend a lot of time at work stuck behind a desk.

However, when you spend hours on end, day after day, sitting in the same spot and mostly sedentary, you're putting yourself at risk of chronic pain, musculoskeletal disorders, and injuries, which can impact your long-term health.

So, when you're at work, you need to be sure to keep proper posture and do as many things as possible to prevent yourself from being completely sedentary.

And, if you don't pay attention, poor posture can quickly become second nature.

Fortunately, if you do pay attention, the main factors affecting posture and ergonomics are completely within your ability to control, and they're not difficult to change.

Related post: What is sciatic nerve pain?

In the article below, we'll discuss several ways you can improve your posture and ergonomics at work while you're stuck behind your desk all day.