McHenry Chiropractic Care for Work-Related Musculoskeletal Pain
Work. We all have to do it. Everyone’s job requires posture(s) that may cause pain at one time or another. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic sees the pain! Quite a few McHenry back pain and neck pain patients who seek chiropractic share stories of work-related pain. We can help!
TREATING AND PREVENTING WORKPLACE MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN
OrthoIllinois Chiropractic is poised in its ability to alleviate and manage work-related musculoskeletal pain for our McHenry chiropractic patients. Not too startling, 81.7% of office workers in one study had musculoskeletal pain in at least one area. Back pain was the most often experienced pain for 54.8%. Neck and shoulder pain followed. Curiously, musculoskeletal system pain was found to be high in office workers whose physical activity levels were reported as low. 58.5% of these workers were “active” physically, 37.3% were less active, 4.1% were very active. (1) Research shows that in-the-workplace exercise interventions were effective in treating musculoskeletal disorders and in decreasing pain for office workers. (2) OrthoIllinois Chiropractic welcomes the optimism this brings for our McHenry back and neck pain patients!
WHAT EXERCISE INTERVENTIONS WORK?
OrthoIllinois Chiropractic treats work-related pain according to the guidelines of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management which incorporates gentle spinal manipulation along with exercise, nutrition and other recommendations. We appreciate researchers’ description of work-related musculoskeletal pain disorders as those painful issues induced by inadequate utilization of the musculoskeletal system throughout the work day. Exercise, education, ergonomic direction, massage are pretty typical methods of dealing with and attempting to prevent pain. Most recommendations like this were for workers to do on their own time. Recently, researchers proposed the benefit of specific, individualized, resistance strengthening exercises in the workplace to reduce pain, fatigue, and discomfort in the neck and upper extremities of workers. (3) That is a promising idea. OrthoIllinois Chiropractic sees the benefit of taking care of oneself at home as well as in the workplace!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Umar Ellahie on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he discusses treatment of cervical radiculopathy with arm and neck pain via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. After months of pain and experiementing with all types of treatments, she found relief.
Schedule your McHenry chiropractic appointment with OrthoIllinois Chiropractic today. We all work. There’s no arguing that! If work and its posturing are painful, let’s chat. Together, we can find a way to reduce and prevent workplace musculoskeletal pain.
