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New Roads 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, getting the assistance of others (elves and reindeer!) to do part of the hard, back-breaking work. However, he also works from his home/workshop which certainly brings him similar stresses and pain like it does for the rest of us who recently realized 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 heavy chores. He moves! New Roads Chiropractic Center encourages all of our New Roads work-from-home friends to do the same as well as received pain-decreasing 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. It was the dream of many…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 issues. (Women related that they had more issues than men.) 30% worked in a separate room at home, 32% worked in a dedicated area of a room with other members of the home, 38% worked in a non-separate area like the dining room. 41% did not sit in an office chair; 32% used an ergonomic chair. 71% were bothered 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%. Contributing 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 requires some preparation. Your New Roads chiropractor is eager to help you prepare.

WORKING FROM HOME: THE SET UP

Any new venture necessitates a plan. Starting without the plan backfires for most. 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 linked to headache and low back pain. (3) A study 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 common. Women reported 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! Despite the new work-from-home trend that caused more sedentary lifestyles, reduced physical activity, and more musculoskeletal pain like back pain, researchers noted that exercise and less sitting around successfully decreased low back pain and even ‘cured’ it for participants in their study. (5) New Roads Chiropractic Center offers some simple, gentle exercises for our New Roads chiropractic patients. Begin them after we perform a thorough exam and you start 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 shares 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 New Roads chiropractic appointment today. Be like Santa: move, delegate the heavy lifting, modify your workspace! Happy Holidays!

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