| Your back or spinal column is the most important | | | | you along. If you want to learn how to sit in |
| part of your skeletal body. Without your spinal | | | | comfort without a backrest using this position, |
| column, functional mobility would be impaired and | | | | then my suggestion is to purchase a bicycle or a |
| your comfort level for ergonomic sitting would | | | | bicycle machine and learn how to ride a bicycle, so |
| greatly jeopardized your internal organs. The main | | | | that you can sit without a backrest. |
| purpose of the spinal column is to maintain the | | | | Pedaling on a bicycle is a therapeutic process for |
| erect posture of the human for enabling functional | | | | relieving back pain, particularly on a real bicycle, |
| mobility, such as in standing, sitting and walking to | | | | where the vibrations of stones and gravel help to |
| all places and at all times and to protect your | | | | massage the vertebrae and dislodge any impinged |
| internal organs from damage. | | | | nerves, relax tense muscles or knead strained |
| We have unique body for adapting to different | | | | ligaments into more corrective positioning. This can |
| conditions for varying purposes. Mostly the | | | | be proved by relating a story about a year last |
| adaptation is provided internally, without having to | | | | winter, when Vancouver suffered a very severe |
| understand the process. Unfortunately, the use of | | | | snowstorm that prevented any access to cycling; |
| the spine is not included in this automatic | | | | walking was the only mode of transportation. The |
| protection and lays vulnerably open for damage. | | | | bad conditions caused me to slip and wrench my |
| Wikipedia describes sitting as "a rest position | | | | back when walking, resulting in a swift visit to the |
| supported by the buttocks or thighs where the | | | | chiropractor, since my bicycle remained dormant. |
| torso is more or less upright". It would be better | | | | The chiropractor was informed of my leg length |
| served to state that "sitting is an anatomical | | | | discrepancy amounting to 3 centimeters that |
| position of rest for the human body, when the | | | | caused scoliosis damage to my spine. After |
| weight of the body runs vertically from the head | | | | reviewing the X-rays of my spine, the |
| down through the spine to the pelvic bones". | | | | chiropractor told me that my scoliosis was no |
| This sitting position allows the vertebrae to remain | | | | longer visible as my spine was straight, even |
| in a vertically relaxed position, without requiring | | | | though the pelvic bones were uneven to each |
| any support. A term created by myself as the | | | | other. He then said "Whatever you are doing to |
| "relaxed hold" that requires no muscular | | | | relieve your scoliosis, keep it up, as it is certainly |
| contractions, for maintaining a balanced sitting | | | | working!" This was the first time and hopefully the |
| position." Consider sitting on an upright bicycle and | | | | last time that a chiropractor was needed for |
| holding the handle bars. There is no back rest | | | | spinal treatment to my back, because the bicycle |
| required and you will not have any discomfort | | | | is a much cheaper and more therapeutic method |
| while cycling. You will sit firmly on your pelvic | | | | of relieving back pain for comfortable sitting all |
| bones, because you will be using your legs to push | | | | day. |