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

Santa doesn’t just work at his desk! He’s out in the world, in and out of his sleigh, getting the help of others (elves and reindeer!) to do part of the hard, back-wrecking 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 does not just sit at a desk. He gets help for challenging chores. He moves! Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. encourages all of our Auburn work-from-home friends to do the same as well as undergo 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: the dream of many…until the dream came true. There are some amazing statistics on how work-from-home has altered 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 reported more issues than men.) 30% worked in a separate room at home, 32% worked in a dedicated area 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 distracted by constant or random disturbances. 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%. 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 less pain demands some preparation. Your Auburn chiropractor is eager to help you prep.

WORKING FROM HOME: THE SET UP

Any new venture necessitates a plan. Starting without the plan backfires 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 experienced more musculoskeletal pain working from home with neck, shoulder and low back pain being the most common. Women reported 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, reduced physical activity, and more musculoskeletal pain like back pain, researchers noted that exercise and less sitting around successfully cut low back pain and even ‘cured’ it for participants in their study. (5) Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. offers some simple, gentle exercises for our Auburn chiropractic patients. Start them after we go through a thorough exam and you begin experiencing relief with our gentle chiropractic spinal manipulation care.

CONTACT Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C.

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.

Schedule your Auburn chiropractic appointment now. Be like Santa: move, get help with the heavy lifting, adapt your workspace! Happy Holidays!

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