To stay healthy, we need to interrupt sustained sitting with movement to give our body what it needs. This interrupt poster is one example of the education material we provide our office clients to encourage movement to help undo the negative effects of prolonged sitting. Download PDF Subscribe To Our Monthly Newsletter Name* First Last…
If we perform everyday, common tasks with ‘Big 3’ principles, we can use our physical tasks to stay strong and healthy. The attached handout is an example of how we highlight healthy posture and movement through our “It Matters” posters. Download PDF Subscribe To Our Monthly Newsletter Name* First Last Email* Enter Email Confirm Email…
Knee Position on Long Drives. Check your knee position when driving. Many of us turn our right foot and knee out to 2 o’clock when we drive – especially for long distances. This has the potential to create an imbalance in our hips as the muscles on the right side of our butt get shorter….
Is Your Cell Phone Winning? In the ongoing posture battle with your phone, watch out for dropping your head to see your phone down at elbow height. Dropping your head puts unnecessary stress on the tissues in your neck. Just look up ‘text neck’ sometime to learn the potential harm you are doing to yourself….
Wide, Stable Base. We need a wide stable base whenever we apply force laterally. We should never have our body weight supported by a hand tool. Two examples of injuries are (1) A worker falling forward when the impact gun he was leaning on dropped after loosening a nut; and (2) A worker falling backward…
Back pain, shoulder pain, sprain, strain, and other injuries are all too common in the workplace. Healthy posture and movements are crucial to preventing these injuries and keeping your body healthy and strong from physical work. Equipped with the right knowledge, tools, and equipment, the vast majority of workplace injuries can be prevented. As pioneers…
The majority of musculoskeletal injuries in the workplace can be mitigated through effective injury prevention strategies. Musculoskeletal injuries are pain in the bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons, and/or nerves and can be either acute (short-term) or chronic (long-term). There are work risk factors that can increase the chances of an employee developing a musculoskeletal injury. Managers…
While going through the recent website redesign for our MoveSafeⓇ Program, I encountered an interesting problem: there is little to no stock photography depicting proper posture and movement at work. What this signals us is the vast amount of unawareness and misunderstanding about how our bodies are designed to move. We Just Don’t See The…
North Americans are spending more time than ever behind the wheel. On average, drivers in the United States reported spending an average of 50.6 minutes on the road driving each day. Many of us may be aware of the importance of proper desk ergonomics but did you know that driving posture either causes or contributes…
All too often, workers don’t learn the necessary skills and knowledge to avoid injuries until they have already been injured. It’s only in physical therapy that they learn the proper postures and movement to recover from and avoid injuries in the future. Injury prevention shouldn’t be reactive, it should be proactive. Workers need to be…
