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

Santa does not just hang out at his desk for work! He is out in the world, in and out of a sleigh, enlisting the assistance of others (elves and reindeer!) to do some of the hard, back-wrecking work. However, he also works from his home/workshop which surely brings him similar stresses and pain 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 sit at a desk. He gets help for heavy chores. He moves! Johnson Chiropractic urges all of our Richmond work-from-home friends to do the same as well as received pain-decreasing chiropractic treatment 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 job for many of us…until the dream came true. There are some stunning 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% said they did not have any such musculoskeletal pain problems. (Women reported more issues than men.) 30% worked in a separate room at home, 32% worked in a separate section of a room with other people 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 bothered by constant or intermittent disruptions. 52% worked longer hours. Only 30% took frequent breaks. (1) Students experienced much the same as the workers did when their learning and teaching was done at home: low back pain for 73%, neck pain for 69%, shoulder pain for 59%. Influencing 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 as little pain as possible requires some preparation. Your Richmond chiropractor is ready to help you prep.

WORKING FROM HOME: THE SET UP

Any new venture necessitates a plan. Beginning without the plan goes wrong for many. 89% of new-to-working-at-home workers who responded to a survey described some musculoskeletal pain. Upper back pain was described as being a result of nonergonomic work environments with suboptimal computer configurations while nonergonomic postures were linked to headache and low back pain. (3) A study of university employees documented that 61% of them had more musculoskeletal pain working from home with neck, shoulder and low back pain being the most frequent. Women stated significantly more pain than men. The height of the seat an the distance of the monitor 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, decreased physical activity, and greater musculoskeletal pain like back pain, researchers noted that exercise and less sitting around successfully reduced low back pain and even ‘cured’ it for participants in their study. (5) Johnson Chiropractic offers some simple, gentle exercises for our Richmond chiropractic patients. Start them after we perform a thorough exam and you begin experiencing 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 Richmond chiropractic appointment soon. Be like Santa: move, delegate the heavy lifting, modify your workspace! Happy Holidays!

Richmond back, neck, shoulder pain from working at home as exhibited by Santa
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