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Creative Way to Get Moving When Working from the Office

Posted on by Brian Whittington, PT, DPT, CMTPT

While Americans work in various industries and hold many different jobs, there’s one constant thread that can be seen through nearly all people’s work. They spend far too much of their day sitting.

Sedentary jobs have increased 83% for Americans since the 1950s, and physically active occupations make up less than 20% of all U.S. jobs. The shifting landscape of American work doesn’t seem to be reversing course anytime soon, and, unfortunately, it negatively impacts on our society’s health.

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