Neck & Shoulder Pain At Work!
Have you ever been sitting at your desk and felt a pain in your neck or shoulder? You're not alone!
Neck and Shoulder pain can affect up to 63% of office workers in their lifetime!
Since Covid-19 and the move to remote and hybrid working, this statistic can only increase due to improper home set ups.
While neck pain and shoulder pain can be very slight at first, over time it can become increasingly debilitating. A lot of this pain can be caused by incorrect posture. So, making slight changes to your posture can have a huge effect!
Improving your posture doesn’t necessarily mean just changing the way you’re sitting. It should also includes creating a more ergonomic friendly workspace – arranging your work place to suit your body requirements and what you are doing.
3 Tips To Relieve Shoulder & Neck Pain At Work
Here are 3 tips to help you set up your workstation to reduce neck pains and shoulder pains:
1. Check the placement of your monitor screen. Your monitor should be placed twenty inches directly in front of you with the top line on the screen at eye level. Other positions may cause you to bend head, neck and shoulders awkwardly resulting in nech and shoulder pain.
2. Check the height of your workstation. A workstation that is too high will cause you to raise your shoulders. To correct this, you can either raise you chair height or adjust the desk height so your shoulders are in a neutral, relaxed position.
3. Check your chair and the arm rest. Using a chair with armrests that are too high can cause you to raise your shoulders, thus resulting in muscle strain. Also make sure that the chair is at the proper height for the desk height.
Following these three tips will help reduce shoulder pains and neck pains from working in awkward positions.