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by superpermutat0r 2233 days ago
I'm in the camp that whatever bodily motions you learn as a young child, your body adapts enough to it that you won't get any kind of damage. I mean, we even had articles here about children having extra bones on the back of the head to counter constant smartphone gaze.

It is the weakening of the muscles that creates issues later in life, mostly due to lack of movement, gaining too much weight and similar.

My whole spine is straightened (from neck down, I have lost the natural lordosis of spine) because I've been sitting and looking at computer screens ever since I was a child. My spine is fine, I do not have any pain, but did start feeling pain in the upper back when I did not exercise for 3 years. Once I started exercising pain went away (still slouched and sat a lot).

Also, there's absolutely no way I could return back to natural lordosis of spine, my spine was straightened since I was 11 years old, my spine shape is the result of adaptation to prolonged sitting.