Are You Looking After Your Back?

Today is the end of the annual back care week from the www.Backcare.org. This years focus has been on teacher's and school children. Back Care are concerned that young backs are at risk from heavy school bags and badly designed chairs. They also are concerned that primary school teachers are suffering back pain in silence.

I've had the opportunity to teach groups of teachers including those at primary school. They can find it very hard and uncomfortable to sit on the small chairs to work with the young children. With a few lessons looking at how to move and sit at low level it became a lot easy for them.

How we sit on chairs is important and we need to remember our posture and to stop using unnecessary muscular tension. Looking at how we carry out our activities can make a significant improvement to how easy they are to do. But we all still need to pay attention to lifting objects safely and keeping within our physical limits. For more information see: lifting safely