| When you think of work injuries, you probably | | | | to automatically check yourself into a Southern |
| think mainly of injuries that involve those that | | | | Will County hospital if you work in an office. There |
| work in very physically demanding jobs. It's easy | | | | are ways to minimize the risk for repetitive |
| to see how someone could get injured when | | | | stress injuries. These techniques won't guarantee |
| they're working at a construction site. If someone | | | | you won't develop an injury, but they should |
| unloads trucks or stocks shelves all day, it's not | | | | make it less likely. |
| surprising that they could come up with a back or | | | | If you do work at a desk all day staring at a |
| leg injury. But an office worker? These sorts of | | | | computer, make sure your setup is ergonomically |
| people aren't usually the types you would think | | | | correct. If you can't get an expert to look at |
| would end up in a Wilmington Illinois hospital with | | | | your desk, computer, and chair then look on the |
| an injury they got at their job. The only types of | | | | internet for some guidelines. The right chair height, |
| injuries you normally associate with these sorts of | | | | monitor height and keyboard placement can get |
| workers are paper cuts and bad eyesight from | | | | you in proper alignment and keep you from |
| staring at a computer all day. But the truth is | | | | having to make an appointment at a Peotone |
| these sorts of jobs can cause just as many if not | | | | Illinois healthcare facility for a sore back, neck, or |
| more injuries than those that are more typically | | | | wrist. Once you're aligned correctly, make sure to |
| associated with being physical jobs. | | | | take frequent breaks from work. Adding a little |
| The sorts of injuries that you'll see with an office | | | | variety to your routine can be a big help and give |
| worker are usually repetitive stress injuries, or | | | | taxed muscles a little rest. It can also be a benefit |
| injuries that are incurred from doing the same | | | | to exercise and stretch. These may seem like |
| thing over and over. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a | | | | hassles, but they can get you in better overall |
| common type of repetitive stress injury. Using a | | | | shape in addition to reducing your injury risk. By |
| computer every day-clicking a mouse, typing on a | | | | following some simple rules, you can reduce the |
| keyboard, and looking at a monitor-can all cause | | | | risk that you'll be paying costly bills for a repetitive |
| these sorts of injuries. Fortunately you don't have | | | | stress injury. |