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

Santa does not just work at his desk! He is out exploring the world, in and out of a sleigh, enlisting 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 surely 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 lounge at a desk. He gets help for heavy chores. He moves! Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC encourages all of our La Grande work-from-home friends to do the same as well as undergo pain-decreasing chiropractic treatment 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 recorded 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 related that they had 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 bothered by constant or occasional disturbances. 52% put in more work hours a day. Only 30% took recurrent breaks. (1) Students underwent much the same as did workers 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 less pain requires some preparation. Your La Grande chiropractor is eager to help you prep.

WORKING FROM HOME: THE SET UP

Any new venture needs a plan. Starting without the plan backfires for many. 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 associated with headache and low back pain. (3) A study of university employees reported 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. 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! Regardless of the new work-from-home trend that caused more sedentary lifestyles, decreased physical activity, and more 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) Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC offers some simple, gentle exercises for our La Grande chiropractic patients. Begin them after we go through a thorough exam and you begin experiencing relief with our gentle chiropractic spinal manipulation care.

CONTACT Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC

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 La Grande chiropractic appointment now. Be like Santa: move, get help with the heavy lifting, alter your workspace! Happy Holidays!

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