21/01/2026
If you’re back at work right now — more desk hours, more meetings, more screen time — you might already be feeling it in your body.
Neck tightness that creeps in by mid-afternoon.
Shoulders slowly rising towards your ears.
Hips feeling stiff when you stand up.
A lot of people assume it’s a posture problem — and try to “sit up straighter”.
But posture isn’t really a position. It’s a pattern your body adopts when it’s tired, stiff, or stuck in one shape for too long.
Here are a few posture myths worth letting go of (and what actually helps instead).