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

Santa does not just work at his desk! He is out in the world, in and out of his sleigh, arranging the assistance of others (elves and reindeer!) to do part of the hard, back-wrecking work. However, he also works from his home/workshop which certainly 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 sit at a desk. He gets help for heavy chores. He moves! Wilson Family Chiropractic encourages all of our Millville work-from-home friends to do the same as well as received relieving chiropractic care for the back pain, neck pain, shoulder, and other pain(s) you may now experience.

THE DREAM: WORK FROM HOME, LEARN AT HOME

Working from home. It was the dream of many…until the dream came true. There are some stunning stats on how work-from-home has changed so many of us. One study of 232 telecom employees found 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 problems. (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 people of the home, 38% worked in a non-separate area like the dining room. 41% didn’t have an office chair; 32% sat in an ergonomic chair. 71% were troubled by constant or occasional disruptions. 52% put in more work hours a day. Only 30% took recurrent breaks. (1) Students underwent 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 in front of the computer. (2) For the work-from-home dream to come true with as little pain as possible demands some preparation. Your Millville chiropractor is ready to help you prep.

WORKING FROM HOME: THE SET UP

Any new venture necessitates a plan. Beginning without the plan backfires for most. 89% of new-to-working-at-home workers who participated in a survey described some musculoskeletal pain. Upper back pain was said to be a result of nonergonomic work environments with non-favorable computer configurations while nonergonomic postures were linked to headache and low back pain. (3) A survey of university employees found that 61% of them had 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. 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 resulted in more sedentary lifestyles, reduced 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) Wilson Family Chiropractic presents some simple, gentle exercises for our Millville chiropractic patients. Begin 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 Millville chiropractic appointment today. Be like Santa: move, get help with the heavy lifting, modify your workspace! Happy Holidays!

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