ABSTRACT
Nearly 300 years ago, in 1713, Ramazzini stated that workers who sat still, stooped, looking down at their work (such as tailors) often became round-shouldered and suffered from numbness in their legs, lameness, and sciatica. Ramazzini generalized that “all sedentary workers suffer from lumbago,” and he advised workers not to sit still but to move the body, and “to take physical exercise, at any rate on holidays” (Wright, 1993, pp. 180-185).
