Eight hours of sitting is not a rest day for your body. It is a different kind of load.
Office work does not feel physically demanding. Yet chronic sitting is one of the biggest risk factors for muscle tension, neck pain and back complaints. Not because sitting is inherently harmful, but because you do it for eight, nine, sometimes ten hours a day — in the same posture, with the same muscle groups under constant, low-level strain.
After a day at a screen, the shoulders are raised, the neck is pulled forward and the lower back has spent hours stabilising a posture it was not designed for. The muscles are not tired from exertion but from endurance. That is a different kind of tension — more persistent, and less easy to recognise as fatigue.
Massage addresses exactly that tension. Not by making you move more, but by giving muscles that have been held too long in the same state the space to release. A relaxation massage focused on the neck, shoulders and back is the most logical choice for office workers. Where there is deeper muscle tension or adhesions — more common in people who have done desk work for years — cupping massage is an effective addition.
Joost works in Hoofddorp, easily accessible from the region. Free parking at the practice. A session lasts 55 minutes and costs €60.