HeyJaredFix Your Posture
Helping desk workers and digital entrepreneurs undo the damage of sitting—with simple tips for better posture, less pain, and more energy
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Sciatica isn't a diagnosis. It's a location. (opens the original)
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There’s a clinical habit that keeps producing the same outcome.Someone comes in with pain shooting from the lower back through the buttock and down the leg. They get a label: sciatica. They get an exercise: piriformis stretch. They go home and stretch the piriformis for six weeks.The pain doesn’t leave.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8yEZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic
Your wrist pain isn't a wrist problem (opens the original)
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There’s a pattern in clinical work that keeps appearing.A desk worker comes in with wrist pain. They’ve been stretching the wrist. They’ve bought a wrist rest. They’ve tried a vertical mouse. The wrist still aches by 3pm on any day with back-to-back typing sessions.Nobody looked upstream.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cv94!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F565
That's not your lower back. That's your glute (opens the original)
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There’s a study that followed elite police officers for five years.These were some of the fittest, strongest workers in the country. The expectation was that the stronger ones would have fewer back injuries. The opposite was true. Strength didn’t protect the joint. The officers who stayed injury-free moved differently — they loaded through the hip. The ones who kept getting hurt loaded through the spine because the hip wasn’t doing its job.If you have lower back pain you can put your thumb direc
Your shoulders aren't weak. They've lost their base. (opens the original)
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McGill once settled a debate about posture with a one-pound object.A student in his lecture hall insisted posture didn’t matter. McGill handed him a one-pound weight to hold — arm extended, shoulders rounded. The student lasted less than 10 minutes before the discomfort made his point for him.The weight wasn’t heavy. The position was the problem.A 2026 randomised controlled trial published in the Archives of Bone and Joint Surgery measured exactly what happens when you correct that position. 43
Your knee pain isn't a knee problem. (opens the original)
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The knee is not the problem.McGill spent three decades watching patients treat the painful structure while the cause upstream stayed completely intact. His term for it: pushing rope. You work the symptom. The system that produced it keeps running.Desk workers get knee pain. They ice the knee. They stretch the knee. They buy a knee brace.What they rarely do is ask why the leg is rotating inward in the first place — loading the kneecap off its groove, straining the inner ligaments, and rubbing the
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