Are you sitting comfortably? Workplace desk set up and exercises

​Did you know?

• The average office worker is likely to spend 65,000 hours in a office chair from leaving full time education until retirement .
• 33% of long term sickness is due to work related musculoskeletal disorders such as back and neck pain.
• 31 million working days are lost in UK (approx £100billion/year) due to MSK disorders, neck and back pain.

So ensuring you have the right desk and seating set up could be vital in helping to try and minimise work-related Musculoskeletal disorders…
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy have come up with some top tips to help with your desk environment:

Recent debate has argued that there is no perfect posture and that frequent breaks and regular exercise is the key:

• Moving more throughout the day can help keep your weight at a healthy level and limit your chances of developing a number of serious illnesses.
• UK exercise guidelines recommends adults aged 19-64 take at least 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity each week, aiming to be active every day. 

These simple stretches can help ease the aches and pains associated with sitting for long periods combined with regular physical activity:

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If you try all these exercise and continue to suffer work related aches and pains then give us a call for some extra input from our physio team.

Book Central Bath Physiotherapy 01225 683007