You’ll definitely stop sitting like that when you find out...

Every girl arbitrarily or deliberately puts her foot on her leg to look more elegant and sexier. This movement is considered a primordial female posture.



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I bet you're reading this. leg up. After all, more than 60% of women and more than 30% of men prefer to sit with crossed legs.

Remember how in the movie The Princess Diaries starring Anne Hathaway, Grandma taught Princess Mia that sitting on your foot is indecent? It's actually harmful. In this article, we discuss the topic of crossed legs in detail and advise you not to sit down until you finish the article.

The fact that sitting, throwing your foot on your foot, harmful, first widely spoken company Pharmaton in 1999. The release of their drug “Venastat” was accompanied by a massive advertising campaign “The Great Crossing”, in which pharmacists urged people to give up sitting with their legs crossed for 24 hours.





Since then, scientists have repeatedly tried to find out Can you sit cross-legged?But they never came to a consensus. It is believed that a long sitting in a pose with crossed legs threatens a whole list of unpleasant consequences.

Among them are high blood pressure, varicose veins and even nerve damage. But what is true and what is fiction?

1. Do crossed legs cause varicose veins?
   Speculation! Now every third woman and every tenth man suffer from varicose veins, while most often the disease develops in the working age from 30 to 40 years. The more a modern person spends time sitting at the wheel of a car or at a computer, the higher the risk of varicose veins. However, most doctors believe that laying the foot on the leg does not cause varicose veins. It leads to age-related changes, genetic factors, excess weight and pregnancy.
   
   
   
   
   
2. Does this pose really provoke the appearance of blood clots?
   Really! Studies have shown that this posture interferes with blood circulation, which can lead to the appearance of blood clots. Not so literally, of course, that he sat - got a clot. But if you have problems with blood vessels, then yes, this posture can inhibit blood circulation. Therefore, sitting with your foot on your foot is not recommended for such people.
   
   
   
   
   
3. Do crossed legs harm nerves in the feet?
   Really! The nerves that control the legs and feet can be damaged if you often sit in a cross-legged position. The fibula nerve is involved in the transmission of motor impulse and sensations to the lower part of the leg, foot and fingers. Often, damage to the fibula nerve is caused by a posture in which one leg lies on the other.
   
   
   
4. Does this posture increase the pressure?
   Yes! Studies show that putting your foot on your leg can temporarily raise blood pressure, but it is unclear whether this posture can cause pressure to rise for a prolonged period. In Istanbul, studies were conducted: they compared the pressure of people with hypertension (high blood pressure) when they sat on the foot and, on the contrary, with two legs on the floor. The pressure when crossing the legs really increased, but after 3 minutes after leaving this posture, it returned to normal.
   
   
   
   
   
5. Does cross-legged posture worsen?
   Nope! Improper posture can occur when sitting with crossed legs, which leads to painful consequences, but this posture alone does not lead to deterioration of posture. Long sitting in an uncomfortable chair will cause much more damage to posture than crossed legs.
6. Does throwing the foot on the leg cause excessive pressure on the hip joint?
   Myth! Crossed legs, rather, strengthen the pelvic area, rather than increase pressure on the hip joints. According to studies, the legs reduced in the knee area increase the stretching of the pear-shaped muscle by 11% compared to sitting without crossing the legs and by 21% compared to standing.
7. Does this pose hurt your back and neck?
   I'm sorry to say yes. The human spine is not straight like a stick. Normally, it has 3 curves: cervical lordosis, thoracic kyphosis, lumbar lordosis. Two concaves and one bulge.
   
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   The normal physiological position of the lumbar region is precisely concave. When we throw our foot on our foot, this lordosis arches. Sciatic bumps go forward, the vertebrae slightly unfold (right or left - depending on which leg was thrown on the other) and squeezed in the opposite direction to the natural.
   
   You can stay in that position for hours, as most people do. sedentary. After a few years of sitting, they go to the doctor with complaints of back and lower back pain. Often they are diagnosed with a “vertebral hernia”, and more than 50-60% of these hernias are posterior lateral, now much more often affecting lawyers and accountants than loaders.
   
   
   
   
   
   The problem can be solved only by getting rid of a bad habit by an effort of will or, for example, with the help of special chairs - posture correctors.
   
   

There's another side to the coin. In countries such as Turkey and Ghana, people may find it offensive. In some countries, a posture with a foot on the leg indicates disrespect and neglect to the interlocutor.

Previously "Site" I have already written about the “healthy habits” that are difficult but urgently needed to get rid of, and what needs to be done to make back pain go away. Keep your spine young! A healthy spine will help you stay young and healthy for many years to come.

This article made me change my foot position. Do you have a habit of sitting with your foot on your foot?