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Carrolltown Work from Home: A Painful Dream Come True? Chiropractic Can Help.

Santa does not just sit at a desk for work! He is out in the world, in and out of his sleigh, getting the help of others (elves and reindeer!) to do some of the hard, back-breaking work. However, he also works from his home/workshop which surely creates stress and pain for him like it does for the rest of us who now realize the dream of working from home. However, we can learn from his example. He doesn’t just lounge at a desk. He gets help for challenging chores. He moves! Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation encourages all of our Carrolltown work-from-home friends to do the same as well as undergo alleviating chiropractic care for the back pain, neck pain, shoulder, and other pain(s) you may now have.

THE DREAM: WORK FROM HOME, LEARN AT HOME

Working from home: the dream of many…until the dream came true. There are some amazing statistics on how work-from-home has changed so many of us. One study of 232 telecom employees documented that 39% had more pain in the low back, 48% in the upper back/neck, and 27% in their hands. Only 33% reported not having any such musculoskeletal pain issues. (Women said that they experienced more issues than men.) 30% worked in a separate room at home, 32% worked in a separate section of a room with other members of the home, 38% worked in a non-separate area like the dining room. 41% did not use an office chair; 32% had an ergonomic chair. 71% were troubled by constant or intermittent disruptions. 52% worked longer hours. Only 30% took frequent breaks. (1) Students underwent much the same as did workers when their learning and teaching was performed at home: low back pain for 73%, neck pain for 69%, shoulder pain for 59%. Contributing factors for students were pain, academic stresses, personal/emotional issues, work environment, and time with the computer. (2) For the work-from-home dream to come true with less pain requires some preparation. Your Carrolltown chiropractor is up to the task to help you prepare.

WORKING FROM HOME: THE SET UP

Any new venture needs a plan. Starting without the plan backfires for many. 89% of new-to-working-at-home workers who participated in a survey stated some musculoskeletal pain. Upper back pain was said to be a result of nonergonomic work environments with suboptimal computer configurations while nonergonomic postures were related to headache and low back pain. (3) A study of university employees found that 61% of them experienced more musculoskeletal pain working from home with neck, shoulder and low back pain being the most often experienced. Women stated significantly more pain than men. Seat height and monitor distance were significant risk factors for discomfort and pain in work-from-home employees. (4)

HOPE FOR NEW WORK-FROM-HOME PAIN

There is hope! Regardless of the new work-from-home trend that prompted more sedentary lifestyles, reduced physical activity, and greater musculoskeletal pain like back pain, researchers remarked that exercise and less sitting around successfully decreased low back pain and even ‘cured’ it for participants in their study. (5) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation presents some simple, gentle exercises for our Carrolltown chiropractic patients. Start them after we perform a thorough exam and you begin noticing relief with our gentle chiropractic spinal manipulation care.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. John Murray on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes relieving chiropractic care for back and neck pain patients with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management on The Cox®8 Table.

Make your Carrolltown chiropractic appointment today. Be like Santa: move, delegate the heavy lifting, modify your workspace! Happy Holidays!

Carrolltown back, neck, shoulder pain from working at home as demonstrated by Santa
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