Systematic Review Of Standing And Treadmill Desks In The Workplace

Standing and treadmill desks are intended to reduce the amount of time spent sitting in today s otherwise sedentary office.

Systematic review of standing and treadmill desks in the workplace.

Standing and treadmill desks are intended to reduce the amount of time spent sitting in today s otherwise sedentary office. Standing and treadmill desks both showed mixed results for improving psychological well being with little impact on work performance. Burra a department of applied human sciences human performance and health research laboratory university of prince edward island charlottetown canada b department of applied human sciences sport psychology research centre university of prince edward island. Request pdf on jan 31 2015 brittany t macewen and others published a systematic review of standing and treadmill desks in the workplace find read and cite all the research you need on.

Proponents of these desks suggest that health benefits may be acquired as standing desk use discourages long periods of sitting which has been identified as an independent health risk factor. Review a systematic review of standing and treadmill desks in the workplace brittany t. Treadmill desks led to the greatest improvement in physiological outcomes including postprandial glucose hdl cholesterol and anthropometrics while standing desk use was associated with few physiological changes.