At home and at our offices, we regularly talk about ergonomics, which broadly constitutes:
- Assuming appropriate work time physical postures.
- Use of appropriate technologies and
- Arranging our work zone items according to our own standing, sitting and bending forward heights.
The purpose of doing so, is to reduce the chances of tiredness in our muscles and to improve their efficiency in our physical and mental tasks everyday.
- So a housewife, who has most of the things arranged at her waist level from the ground in her kitchen, now barely bends forward to lift anything placed at a much lower height.
- Similarly, an office person working on computer is hardly using his hands to do something physically more effortful.
Over a period of years, while this has helped we ‘technically civilized’ humans a lot, it has also led our muscles to undergo a gradual deconditioning, simply because we have ceased the habit of using them for extended hours, with strength.
Some of the growing experiences in the adult population, are as follows:
- Frequent cramps and pains in wrist, hand and fingers.
- Quite often feeling ‘cramped’ in upper back muscles.
- Shoulders aching on touch.
- Tiredness gradually amounting to pain in low back, back of the thighs, knees and legs muscles.
Physically rehabilitating such issues are also proving to bring in temporary reliefs only, ranging from few weeks to few months. This is because day-to-day physical routines also contribute to maintain one’s physical agility and endurances. However, easy work life arrangements and tendencies now-a-days are not letting us push through even normal level physical stresses, thereby limiting the extent of improvements following any needful physiotherapy regimes.
The solution?
Add some fine muscle strength training activities in your daily rountines, even if you are not habitual of doing fitness exercises.
Things as simple as keeping a palm exerciser or a softball for frequently doing palm and finger exercises through the day, is the simplest thing to start with.
For a personalized advice on developing a broad set of reconditioning environment around yourself at home or at your office, book an appointment with a licensed physiotherapist, at Sugar Den- The Physiotherapy Clinic, which is located near Dabri Mod at Janakpuri, in West Delhi, today.
One can also book such appointments at our clincial network units at Bengaluru and at Patna.
Corporates can also explore our physical and online preventive wellness programs for their employees.
Rights to all the services are reserved with Start Exercises Physiotherapy Services, New Delhi, which is the parent organization of Sugar Den- The Physiotherapy Clinic.
(*illustrative AI image created with Google Gemini)
Sugar Den 
You must be logged in to post a comment.