Lots of beautiful leaves falling in your yard calls for more yard work–especially raking! Unfortunately, if you use improper form, raking leaves can leave you with sore shoulders, low back pain, aching knees, muscle strains, and other pains associated with poor raking mechanics. To help you prepare before tackling that leaf pile, here are five tips to help keep you …
5 Tip Checklist for Great Posture at Your Desk
Whether you are working from home or back in the office, this checklist can help you use posture as medicine. Didn’t know your posture could be medicine? Take a quick review of our previous blog about ergonomics. 5 Tip Checklist Check your chair2, 3, 6 Sit close to your work station, with your feet flat on the floor or a …
Ergonomics to Adopt Now Whether You are #WFH or Returning to Work
Ergonomics at your desk If you are working from home (#wfh), you may be working from a very makeshift station: a kitchen table, a coffee table, or card table in a bedroom (if you have a designated spot at all). You probably set up this post by yourself. And you likely did not consult an OSHA agent on its long …
Dr. LoRang earns Injury Prevention Specialist certification
As of July 16, 2018, Dr. Chris LoRang is now certified as an Injury Prevention Specialist (IPS) with Future Industrial Technologies (FIT). To add to his extensive knowledge of functional movements and preventative care, Dr. LoRang is now even more equipped to help businesses by conducting ergonomic assessments and coaching employees how to prevent injuries at work. Two of the …
How to Build Your Own Standing Desk
Two years ago, I realized I was sitting quite a bit. At work, at home, in the car and in meetings. Even I, a chiropractor, had neck pain and headaches from poor seated posture. I started to grow frustrated that I was sitting even in my home office, while finishing notes and responding to emails in the evenings. So I decided to …
5 Tips to Improve Your Posture at Work
Nearly every day, we talk with people who spend hours a day sitting at their desks. We see the plagues of desk-bound days: the neck pain, tight shoulders, aching backs and even headaches. Our approach is that movement can be medicine. We identify common, predictable biomechanical motor patterns that can put people at risk for certain types of pain – even when it looks …