Vancouver Chiropractic Care for Work-Related Musculoskeletal Pain

Work. We all have to work. Everyone’s job requires posture(s) that may elicit pain at one point or another. Vancouver Disc Centers sees the pain! Quite a few Vancouver back pain and neck pain patients who seek chiropractic share stories of work-related pain. We are here to help!

TREATING AND PREVENTING WORKPLACE MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN

Vancouver Disc Centers is poised in its ability to alleviate and handle work-related musculoskeletal pain for our Vancouver chiropractic patients. Not too surprisingly, 81.7% of office workers in one study experienced musculoskeletal pain in at least one area. Back pain was the most often experienced pain for 54.8%. Neck and shoulder pain were after that. Interestingly, musculoskeletal system pain was found to be high in office workers whose physical activity levels were reported as low. 58.5% of these workers were “active” physically, 37.3% were less active, 4.1% were very active. (1) Research shows that in-the-workplace exercise interventions were effective in addressing musculoskeletal disorders and in decreasing pain for office workers. (2) Vancouver Disc Centers appreciates the optimism this brings for our Vancouver back and neck pain patients!

WHAT EXERCISE INTERVENTIONS WORK?

Vancouver Disc Centers manages work-related pain within the guidelines of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management which integrates gentle spinal manipulation along with exercise, nutrition and other advice.  We appreciate researchers’ description of work-related musculoskeletal pain disorders as those painful issues induced by inadequate utilization of the musculoskeletal system during work. Exercise, education, ergonomic direction, massage are pretty usual methods of managing and attempting to prevent pain. Most recommendations like this were for workers to do outside of the workplace. Recently, researchers proposed the value of specific, individualized, resistance strengthening exercises in the workplace to reduce pain, fatigue, and discomfort in worker’s neck and upper extremities. (3) That is a promising idea. Vancouver Disc Centers sees the benefit of taking care of oneself at home as well as in the workplace!

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Umar Ellahie on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes treatment of cervical radiculopathy with arm and neck pain via The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management. After months of pain and experiementing with all sorts of treatments, she experienced relief.

Schedule your Vancouver chiropractic appointment with Vancouver Disc Centers today. We all work. There is no way around that! If work and its posturing are painful, let’s chat. Together, we can find a way to relieve and prevent workplace musculoskeletal pain.