Explain why touching your toes while you are seated on the

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Explain why touching your toes while you are seated on the floor with outstretched legs produces less stress on the lower spinal column than when touching your toes from a standing position. Use a diagram.

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QUESTION:

Explain why touching your toes while you are seated on the floor with outstretched legs produces less stress on the lower spinal column than when touching your toes from a standing position. Use a diagram.

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Since in sitting position, a relatively small value of the torque exerts about the hips due to the small lever arm length. So, on the upper body, the force of gravity causes small torque leading to rotating the body forward.

 

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