Survey Findings
- Most respondents have back pain
- Most respondents work with their phones or laptops outside
- Most respondents are sedentary, even if they don´t consider themselves sedentary.}
Survey: 
Google Docs Sitting, waiting, wishing
Survey Questions & Results (17 answers, with a 12 year old typo which will be eliminated as an outlier, given that the respondent does not fit in the population we are looking at):
Short Summary: Respondents are usually at a student or working level. Most of them consider themselves sporty, sit for at least 4 hours a day, with the main concentration being between 6 and 8 hours a day. 82.2% of people use their phones, computers outside. 58.8% of respondents indicated they have back pain, where most of the concentration of back pain is in the lower back.
Implications: Back pain is a phenomenon that occurs to most of the population I surveyed. This population also sits for many hours a day and is used to working outside with devices such as phones, computers or books. Even though most of the population does not consider itself sedentary, most of it sits down for most of the day. Realistically, it would be difficult to sit down for 4 hours or less when one is a student. This means that there is a real problem: back pain, that may have different causes (which are connected with an interview I conduced).
To find the main causes for back pain, I interviewed my physical therapist who works with at least 50 patients a week for lower back pain, in addition to her lower back pain class she gives on tuesdays and wednesdays.
She told me that main causes for back pain are:
- Sitting for too many hours
- Specially when sitting in the wrong position
- Not holding the phone and computer in the right way (this is, looking at the screen crouched forward).
- Not stretching and doing excercises for the back after practicing sports.
- Doing strength training and other sports in bad positions for the back.
Taking the survey, the physical therapist overview and what I saw in the park (17-80 year olds sitting in the “wrong position” using their phones or computers) into account, one could imply that there is a real need for sitting better and reducing back pain.
Results, open:
