Friday, February 14, 2014

Body Aches and Pains

Body Aches and Pains
Where are they coming from? 
How to help combat what Society has thrown at you and 
hoy my lectures from traveling to a couple companies can help!



Exercise and Stretching!  It's as simple as that.  The last couple of months I have traveled to different companies including Trident in New Milford, CT, Odyssey Logistics in Danbury CT, and soon Kimberly Clark in New Milford, CT to discuss how simple it can be to reduce chronic pain with stretching and exercise.  Also, people don't know what pain is or where it's coming from!  Or, they don't realize what type of pain it is and are too stubborn to deal with it.  Men are famous for this, as their mentality is "I'm tough, I can deal with it," and a week later they are incapacitated.  



When I traveled to these companies and spoke to the employees, I explained to them how sitting at a desk, constantly being on the phone or texting, or repetitive movements can cause these postural problems!  I think seeing these pictures and the lecture slides made them realize they know certain people who look like this!  Or, they might be susceptible to these problems with the certain type of work they perform at their company.  



Did you know that for every inch that your head moves forward its an extra TEN pounds of pressure on your neck, shoulders, back and spine?  That's a lot of force to be putting on the nerves in the back of your spine.  You will find that your upper back will stiffen, leading to less range of motion of your arms, your neck will be sore along with your arms and hands, and soon you will be an old lady or man that looks like a hunch back.  



Like I said before, people don't understand what pain is, and therefore don't know how to treat it.  I put this slide together to show people that a trigger point, or as people would call it a knot, in your neck can lead to pain traveling up and around your ear to the front of your head!  The "X" is where the knot is and the blue is where pain can travel.  Moral of the story, people think they are having a migrane and take a bunch of advil when in reality it is a knot in their neck from a postural problem, and until they correct the way they are holding themselves up it's not going to change.  I also had a slide of how back pain can really be caused by tightness in the front of the hip from sitting too long! Until you fix the problem in the front of the leg, your back pain isn't going to get any better even with ice and advil.




When you are hungry what do you do?  YOU EAT!  When you are thirsty what do you do?  YOU DRINK!  When your body hurts what do you do?  MOST people lay down, don't move, and take pills.  This is you body asking for help as it wants to move and to be stretched out!  Simple stretches like these can cure headaches, chest pain, etc.  Some people go to the ER thinking that they are having a heart attack and it's really a tight Pec muscle that is causing the pain.  Think you have Carpal Tunnel?  Scroll back up and see the referral pain patterns from the pec minor in the slide above



 

Here I am at Odyssey Logistics in Danbury CT showing employees how simple hip strengthening exercises can be and how low impact they are on your knees.  This is a simple cure for many ailments which can be easy and fun to do with a partner.


What was nice about this company is they gave their employees 2 different time slots to come to the lecture.  They could either come at 12 or at 1 depending on their work load.  I spoke with about 20 employees that day and even though that was a small fraction of the company, I hope word will travel and more will be informed about these topics. 




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