Tips on How to Do Simple Stretching Exercises at Your Desk to Relieve Soreness

Does your job require you to sit behind a desk for a long time? Activities of sitting behind a desk and staring at your computer screen every day can be exhausting. In fact, you often feel stiff in the shoulders, back and even neck.

To relieve the soreness that occurs from too much sitting, you can do with a simple muscle stretching behind your desk. Here are some tips from Bob Anderson author of Stretching in the Office that you can try to ease the soreness you are experiencing:

Back
In the standing position, place your palms on your lower back (right in the kidney) with the fingers pointing downward and the thumb pointing outward. Push your hands slowly forward while lifting your chest out, and hold on the count of 8-10 seconds. Repeat 2-3 times.

Scapula
Link the fingers of both hands behind your head, and try to bring to the inside of the shoulder blade. Hold for 3-5 seconds, and repeat this 2-3 times.

Shoulder
Pull shoulders up toward your ears. Hold for 3-4 seconds. When you relax your shoulders, feel that your shoulders really comes down to the bottom to avoid shoulder strain.

Neck
Tilt the head to the right, with your right ear towards right shoulder. While performing this movement, lower your left shoulder down. Do both sides. Interspersed with a shrug movement.