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I can't sit cross-legged on the floor because my legs are bowed and deformed but I am flexible enough to touch the floor when standing upright, almost can touch the floor with my palms. I have issues with my neck being stiff a lot and stretch it multiple times a day every day.

i'm stiff in the wrong places. anyways, i digress. the older i get the more de-stiffening and limbering exercises i have to do. soon enough i'll have to spend a majority of the time doing these prophylactic exercises.

Remembering to do these stretches seems to be harder than actually doing them. Most days

I feel better when actually moving around, waling or running. When in bed, pains come out to play. Mostly, there are from poor posture growing up. Plus I sit too long here at the PC in an unsuitable chair! I wish I had a body-hugging one that could truly make me feel like captain of my own destiny, aboard the bridge of the Endless Quest.

Currently sit on a backless ottoman style chair. There's an office type chair here but it doesn't always work well for me. Sometimes I even use the couch! But that's a bit low so it's hard to work properly like that.

backless chair, OUCH!!

it can have the advantage of strengthening the back. But with my poor posture, not really ideal.

I may ask my sister to keep a lookout for a spare office chair that my brother in law doesn't need anymore.

my chair was cheap, about $30. thin and i augment it with extra padding, and the hydraulic lift thingy is shot so i hadda roll cardboard and tape it on the cylinder to keep it from sinking to the floor. a lot of used office chairs have shot hydraulics

I need a rather high chair; the ones with shot hydraulics are more for ten-year-olds to sit on as as they sink so low!

Often they actually sink with a little hydraulic sigh as I've just adjusted the height and sitting pretty...