Greg LaRochelle Clocking in at a little more than two and a half minutes, the Rolling Stones studio rendition of “You Gotta Move” just seems like a nifty number to motivate a microbreak for about the same length of time. Indeed, the twang from the electric slide-guitar accompaniment might inspire you to glide across the kitchen floor (if you're working from home) and you don't need to have moves like Jagger to strut your stuff with your head held high. Yeah, you gotta move regularly during the day to shake off the static posture blues and here's why. Minimal movement coupled with awkward posture, repetition, and excessive force creates insidious stress on the body. Prolonged static tasks such as sitting at a computer workstation or assembling widgets on a production line will eventually cause fatigue. Muscles tense, joints stiffen, flexibility diminishes, and a reduction in blood flow to the tired tissue ensues. In time, with more than one hit (to the body) from the deleterious effects of static loading, the risk of physical injury increases and will not fade away without ample recovery time. Counteracting this “fixed” condition can be achieved through multiple microbreaks. A loss control colleague, who worked with professional football players as a physical therapist, puts it perfectly, “Motion is lotion.” You don't need to tell that to the Tin Man who breathed a big sigh of relief (aah!) as his raised, frozen-in-time, axe-wielding arm got oiled. He probably would have had the same reaction after hovering his hand over a mouse indefinitely.