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If you are like most people, when you hear the term "workplace-related injury," Today's sedentary office workers experience more than their share of workplace injuries due to long hours spent in fairly immobile positions, constant keyboard use, lack of exercise so their core muscles provide little support for their spines, habits like cradling the phone between their ears and their shoulders, and lugging laptop computers around in shoulder cases. Office workers who make frequent business trips and traveling sales people frequently experience back and shoulder strain from carrying luggage, laptops, and other business equipment. Working women, who run around in high-healed shoes and carry heavy purses in addition to bulky laptops, are at added risk for chronic back, shoulder, and neck pain. Corporate employees also experience work-related emotional stress that causes physical problems. Many of today's employees say they experience considerable emotional stress as a result of corporate pressure to do everything faster, sooner, and better. Most people tense up (contract their muscles) when they feel stressed, so it is little wonder that back pain, neck aches, shoulder pain, and headaches are prevalent today amongst the American workforce. A chiropractor can help realign your spine to relieve acute neck, back, and head pain. A chiropractor can also help you establish both a therapeutic exercise program designed to correct the current condition and a preventative exercise/stretching routine to help guard against future injury. Many chiropractors are also skilled in teaching patients relaxation exercises to help control the emotional stresses that produce chronic muscle tension and pain. |
