print email comment close New Advice: Don't Sit Up Straight URL: http://www.livescience.com/health/061128_backpain_sitting.html Description: Brief article about a study released in November 2006, which suggests that "leaning back is a much better posture" than sitting up straight while working. Includes a description of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study and how "disks [in the back] were least moved when subjects were sitting back at a 135-degree sitting position." From LiveScience.com, a website from a science and technology media and commerce company. Author: Goudarzi, Sara Publisher: Imaginova Corp. LII Database Information: Record 23041 created by Maria Brandt on 12/11/2006 Last modification on 06/07/2007 Published: 12/13/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/23041