Health Concerns Push Sedentary Office Workers to Their Feet

You can’t tell by looking at her, but Michelle Baxter suffers from chronic pain in her muscles and joints. She now spends her work day standing at her desk as a remedy for fibromyalgia.    "Since I’ve been standing my lower lumbar feels much better and, plus, I get to exercise and move more and to have everything circulate in the blood," she said. "It feels good." Baxter works with student records at the George Washington University in the nation’s...

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