Work Comp. Hurt at work. Work-related back injury. Neck injury. Groton employers and employees alike don't care for these words. All want to fend off the incidence of back injury at work and the hip, knee and ankle trouble that often results. But how? Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office works with individual Groton workers and is more than ready to work with a Groton company to develop a program to avoid work-related injuries.
160,000,000 office workers (knowledge workers) and 2/3 of the developed countries use computers on a daily basis. (1)
Questions
Groton employers ask themselves
- how can we curtail or eliminate work related back injuries?
- how can acute back pain injuries be cared for so they don’t become chronic?
- what work techniques can be put in place to reduce incidence, cost and productivity loss?
All are great questions that the Groton chiropractor is ready to tackle.
Plan
Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office can help local companies identify potential
and actual back pain and extremity pain employees for preventive care.
Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office can help reduce occupational conditions that contribute to back
pain by developing alternative conditions for the company to initiate.
Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office can offer training to Groton employees on specific
conditions of the spine and how to prevent exacerbating pain in them. And maybe
most importantly, Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office works
with the injured employee to return to work a confident employee who knows how to best
care for his or her spine and not fear its re-injury. That’s employee
appreciation on the Groton company’s part.
Details of the Plan
Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office looks for early signs and symptoms of
musculoskeletal pain like general tension to prevent future pain. (2) Joint
angles – knee, ankle, lumbar spine, hip - required to lift maximum weight and
not injure a spine can be analyzed in the work environment and adapted as
needed. (3) Groton at-risk of re-injury workers may even be
identified despite their seeming readiness to return to work by their muscle responses. Low back injury patients tend
to use their thoracic spine more. (4) Sometimes occupational injury may be related
to something as simple as the clothing and equipment employees use (5) or
having a support group for workers in pain to
share with onsite. (6) Now that can be addressed pretty easily. It may just
take an outsider to come in with “new eyes” and see something that can help.
Reality and Help
Occupational low back pain is the most expensive form of work disability in terms of actual financial costs as well as social costs and productivity costs. Persistent low back pain is particularly expensive in relation to acute and subacute low back pain. (6) In Groton, chiropractic influence and care at Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office benefits both the employer and the employee. Work-related back pain need not frustrate either. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office welcomes the opportunity to work with Groton employers and employees to make the workplace a back-safe place. Contact us today.