Did you know that sitting at a desk all day can be just as dangerous to your health as too much strenuous labor? While the effects may be different, the fact is that the human body was not designed to be stationary for long periods any more than it was meant to endure long hours of grueling physical work. …
How to Prevent Musculoskeletal Disorders in Office Workers Try it now: Sitting at your desk, make sure you have good posture. Here is what you should be looking for:te a.) Feet – should be flat on the floor. If your chair or desk height do not enable this, use a phonebook (who has one these days?) or a couple of…
Back pain is estimated to affect 80% of us at least once in our lifetime. When we went from a population that breaks rocks, digs trenches, and shovels coal (or smellier stuff) for a living to a population that crunches numbers, analyses spreadsheets and reads reports, there was a general feeling that we would see a decrease in low back…
We have a twisted sense of humour here at painPRO…you’re looking at a computer right now. Hopefully that doesn’t make us part of the problem. Just Another Day at the Office Our modern work environment creates a very unnatural setting. You sit for long hours in front of a computer monitor. Add to that the stress of work deadlines, increasing…