Re: [Paddlewise] Why your legs go to sleep.

Many thanks to Richard for his reference to Rene Cailliet's "Low Back Pain
>Syndrome", F.A. Davis, Philadeplhia, which I will now order since my books
on ergonomics did not clearly explain the "why".

Richard asked;
>
>What did the Inuit use for seats?

According Eugene Arima (Contributions to Kayak Studies and others) they
used skins to pad the bottom. Many used no backrest or just used the
cockpit back. Since cockpit heights varied considerably one suspects they
did not recognise back pain as a problem or did not associate it with the
backrest.

Cheers,
John Winters
Redwing Designs
Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft
http://home.ican.net/~735769/

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