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 …
Posture to Avoid Tech Neck with Your Phone
View this post on Instagram Tech neck! Have you ever looked like this first picture of Dr. LoRang, with your neck and upper back craned down to look at your cell phone? 🙋🏻♀️🙋🏽♂️ It’s so easy to do! But it’s so unnatural for your spine. Instead, try bringing your phone up (like photo #2) or leaning forward on …
Posture to Avoid Tech Neck with Your Computer
View this post on Instagram Tech neck, part two! Have you ever looked like Dr. LoRang in photos 1-3? 🙋🏻♀️🙋🏾♂️🙋🏼♀️🙋🏻♂️🙋🏾♀️🙋🏼♂️🙋♀️🙋🏿♂️ Craning our heads forward and down to look at computer screens can wreak havoc on our muscles and spine. Ouch! 🙇🏽♀️🙇🏼♂️💥🔥🚧🌋⚠️🚫‼️ Instead, try one of the postures Dr. LoRang demonstrates in photos 4-6. Here, the spine and neck …
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 …
Posture and Back Pain: 5 Tips for Surviving Desk Culture
If you’re like many people, you may spend hours every day sitting at a desk – or sitting in a car, or on a couch, or at a kitchen table. And as we sit – even though it looks like we’re doing very little – through our inactivity and posture, we can actually be causing ourselves harm. Consequences of sitting …