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

Santa does not just work at his desk! He’s out exploring the world, in and out of a 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 recently realized the dream of working from home. However, we can learn from his example. He does not just sit at a desk. He gets help for challenging chores. He moves! Aaron Chiropractic Clinic urges all of our Fort Wayne work-from-home friends to do the same as well as undergo pain-reducing 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 members of the home, 38% worked in a non-separate area like the dining room. 41% didn’t sit in an office chair; 32% used an ergonomic chair. 71% were bothered by constant or random disturbances. 52% worked longer hours. Only 30% took recurrent breaks. (1) Students experienced much the same as did workers when their learning and teaching was undertaken 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 less pain requires some preparation. Your Fort Wayne chiropractor is eager to help you prepare.

WORKING FROM HOME: THE SET UP

Any new venture needs a plan. Starting 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 related to headache and low back pain. (3) A survey of university employees documented that 61% of them experienced 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 resulted in more sedentary lifestyles, reduced physical activity, and greater musculoskeletal pain like back pain, researchers remarked that exercise and less sitting around successfully reduced low back pain and even ‘cured’ it for participants in their study. (5) Aaron Chiropractic Clinic presents some simple, gentle exercises for our Fort Wayne chiropractic patients. Start 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.

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

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