Girls cross their legs

Many people cannot help but cross their legs after sitting down. Although crossing your legs can make your body feel relaxed and keep your legs in a comfortable position, it can cause great harm to your body. Especially for girls, if they have the habit of crossing their legs, they must correct it, because due to the physiological structure of girls, frequently crossing their legs can cause serious damage to the bones. In summary, a girl who often crosses her legs will suffer the following harms.

5 terrible consequences of crossing your legs

1Causes knee pain

If the knee joint remains in a twisted state for a long time, it will cause joint pain and affect its function. Especially for patients who already have joint pain, they should avoid bending or twisting the joints.

2. Damage to the back muscles and spine

When people cross their legs, they tend to hunch over, causing uneven pressure distribution in the lumbar spine, thoracic spine and spine.

At this time, the pelvis will drive the spine to rotate, causing muscle stretching, resulting in passive imbalance of the soft tissues on both sides of the spine. Over time, it is easy to cause back muscle fatigue and soreness, and may even cause spinal twisting or scoliosis.

3. Aggravate varicose veins

When you cross your legs, the veins at the back of the legs and the popliteal fossa are compressed, venous return is obstructed, and venous pressure increases, all of which are hidden dangers of varicose veins in the lower limbs.

Although domestic and foreign studies have found that the main causes of varicose veins are heredity, obesity, age, etc., patients with varicose veins or edema in the lower limbs should not cross their legs to avoid aggravating the symptoms.

4Causes transient high blood pressure

When you cross your legs, the action of crossing your legs may trigger a transient increase in blood pressure and cause some uncomfortable symptoms.

Therefore, when measuring blood pressure, hypertensive patients must keep their legs in a natural and relaxed state.

5 Causes lower limb thrombosis

Smokers and patients with atrial fibrillation, diabetes and other diseases should avoid crossing their legs. This is because crossing your legs can cause poor blood flow to the lower limbs, which may lead to blood clots in the lower limbs.

Crossing your legs isn't entirely useless. If the pelvis is uneven, for example, the left side is higher and the right side is lower, it is recommended that you sit with your right leg crossed to correct the tilt angle of the pelvis.

Moreover, postpartum women can increase pelvic stability by crossing their legs appropriately according to their own situation.

Correct sitting posture can save you from injury

If you can't change the habit of crossing your legs, you can reduce the harm by doing the following.

Nalesh Rau, a water sports therapist for the 2016 U.S. Olympics, recommends that you cross your legs for no more than 15 minutes, and that you alternate between the two legs. Also, for every hour you sit, you should stand up and move around for 5 minutes.

You should sit like this

Keep your back straight, shoulders dropped, and elbows relaxed at your sides.

Your buttocks should be touching the back of the chair.

The keyboard should be right in front of you, the mouse should be on the side of the keyboard, and the phone should not be too far away from you, preferably within arm's reach.

When using the keyboard and mouse, try to keep your wrists straight and your shoulders relaxed.