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Find your primal posture and sit without back pain: Esther Gokhale at TEDxStanford

TEDx Talks · talk · Watch on YouTube

Fitness, sleep & longevityProduct & industrial design

What it is

Esther Gokhale's short TEDx talk argues that the natural human spine is curved rather than straight and teaches a 'primal posture' for sitting without back pain.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended in back pain and posture threads as a short, practical idea that helped some commenters.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2018

What HN commenters said

  1. “This TED talk will explain why curved is better than straight”

    Explains why curved spine posture can be better.

    hackaflocka, 2016-07 · Recommendation · in “We have an epidemic of bad posture”

  2. “Here is a relevant video from her”

    Relevant talk from the author on sitting posture.

    superasn, 2018-08 · Recommendation · in “To Fix Back Pain, You Might Have To Change The Way You Sit”

  3. “I found this Ted talk helped me with some lower back and leg issues.”

    Helped with lower back and leg issues.

    nverba, 2018-10 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: What do you do to avoid back pain?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: posture, back pain, sitting, ergonomics, gokhale method

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