On Saturday the 28th of January CORE and MORE clinic had a pleasure of hosting patients for free of charge physiotherapeutic consultations. Among our guests were very young people as well as adults - because you must take care of your health in every age!

During the appointments we were performing examinations and diagnosing different health problems of our patients. The next step was deciding on the actions that will improve the condition of their health and help  to return to the full efficiency. Thank you for your trust and cooperation.

Remember about our recommended exercises and the affects will surely come!

It is nothing new that the spine is a pillar of our body that amortizes disruptions and protects the functional center of our body - spinal cord and nerves. Spine possess its specific curves that serve for the amortizing purposes: cervical and lumbar lordosis  and thoracic kyphosis. Amortization of the forces that influence our body is possible thanks to the intervertebral discs.

In theory, spine is a very resilient structure. It shouldn't be easy to injure such a "block" of bones.

But it seems that more and more people is suffering from the pain in the back - the young, the older, the middle-aged. What do they have in common? Usually, working in the sitting position.

Slouching while sitting - we very often spend even 8 hours working  in this position  in front of the computer that increases the spinal discs' overload by 85%.

Sitting isn't good for us!!!

What are we supposed to do if we can't move to a tropical island and we will probably spend our future working 40h a week in the sitting position.

Here is a few simple tricks that you can use in your daily life:

- set the alarm to go off every hour and walk at least few steps (it is easy to forget without the alarm)

- do 10 backward circles with your shoulders (to move the shoulder girdle and  to take a different position for a moment)

- move your head 10 times towards the left and to the right shoulder (from the center to the side and back to the center)

- stretch your chest by stretching your hands to the sides as far as you can (very slowly) and keep this position for 30 seconds

- at the end stretch your trapezoid muscles

Try to introduce small changes to your work schedule and you will feel better in no time

And of course spend one hour a week taking care of your body: training at home, yoga, pilates, swimming, going to the gym
If the pain is severe, chronic, often recurring and causing the feeling of "stiffness" in the cervical area you should visit a physiotherapist.

There is many therapeutic methods which decrease muscular tension caused by long hours of working in the sitting position. Some of them are:

- Physical therapy (ionophoresis, laser therapy, TENS currents, interferrating currents)
- Kinesio Taping (proper application of the tapes helps to lower the muscular tension)
- Relaxing and therapeutic massage
- Manual therapy
- Functional training ( the last stage of rehabilitation  which will protect our body from other afflictions )

In CoreandMore clinic we use all of the above methods so you can quickly get rid of the pain and  return to work. With the help of our special therapeutic plan we have helped many patients with such health problems.

If you have a problem with choosing the exercises appropriate for you and you suffer from pain in the spine due to the sitting job - we want to invite you for a consultation to CoreandMore!