Advice and education

Knowing what you can do to help yourself at home, work and play is a very important part of treatment to prevent reoccurrence. Rebecca gives comprehensive and individualised advice regarding injury management and prevention.

Work place ergonomic assessments

As a physiotherapist, Rebecca is the ideal professional to conduct an ergonomic assessment. She has an extensive knowledge of the biomechanical functions of the body and the effect different stresses have on it. She can provide a comprehensive workstation ergonomic assessment for your workplace or home office.

An individual’s workstation should be suitably tailored to meet their needs in order to minimise their injury risk. Poor workstation setups commonly cause neck, shoulder and back pains, repetitive strain injuries, visual impairments and poor posture.

The work station assessment often in clues chair and desk height adjustments, mouse and keyboard positioning corrections, sitting posture education, display screen adjustments, change in feet positioning and advice on any beneficial therapeutic equipment to reduce strains on the body.

Prolonged sitting compresses and weakens your core. In addition to back and neck pain, research studies have shown that sitting 12 hours a day increases your risk of developing diabetes by 91% (Biswas, A., Oh, P. I., Faulkner, G. E., Bajaj, R. R., Silver, M. A., Mitchell, M. S., & Alter, D. A. (2015). Sedentary time and its association with risk for disease incidence, mortality, and hospitalization in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Annals of Internal Medicine, 162(2), 123-32. doi:10.7326/M14-1651.)

Here are a few tips to help you avoid sitting all day:-

1. Stand up and move around regularly. Micro-posture breaks really help.

2. Use a head set when you're on the phone so you can walk and talk. Alternatively use ear buds so you can walk and talk outdoors in your lunch break.

3. Use a variable height so you can adjust he height of the keyboards and monitor regularly throughout the day.

When you are sitting try sitting on an exercise ball for one hour a day instead of your chair.

Alternating posture between sitting, standing and walking will reduce pain in the back, neck and leg muscles due to stress, strain and overuse.

Here is some useful information from Osmond Ergonomics about office place posture and simple stretching exercises you can do at home:-

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