Quick follow-up on the doorway stretch thing from a few days back, since a couple of you mentioned moving things around to force the actual stretch instead of just remembering to do it.
I moved the yarn basket over by the window, maybe 6 feet from my chair, so I have to stand up and walk over every time I run low instead of just leaning sideways off the couch. That part worked exactly like it was supposed to, no more hunching over the needles for an hour straight without noticing.
But here’s the odd part. My neck is still locked up by 3pm most days even when I haven’t touched the yarn at all. Caught myself doing the exact same forward-head thing yesterday just proofreading a resume on the laptop, shoulders creeping up toward my ears, completely separate from the knitting habit.
So the stretch solved the one specific posture problem it was aimed at, but it’s doing nothing for whatever this screen-sitting version is. I’m probably at a desk 8 hours most days between work and job search stuff. Has anyone found something that resets the neck and shoulders from general sitting, not from one obvious bad habit like the yarn was?