3. RehabWorks Operations
Monday - Friday, 7am-5pm
Treat work, non-work, sport injuries
Pre and post-operative rehabilitation
Patient Treatment Days – M, W, F
Each appointment last approx. 1 hour
Avg. patient receives 2-3 appointments/week
Tuesdays and Thursdays are for new patients and employee
outreach/training
Employees can request a one-time consult
10. Sitting Disease
What is it?
Is it contagious?
Is there a pill that can fix it?
Is this the medical term for couch potato??
11. Sitting Disease???
How many hours a day do you sit?
Driving
Work
Watching TV
At meals
50% to 70% of people spend six or more hours sitting a
day
20% to 35% spend four or more hours a day watching TV
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14. Increased Risks
Sedentary lifestyle is associated with increased risk for
type 2 diabetes, heart disease and certain cancers
(breast and colon).
Physical activity seems to reduce risks by increasing
insulin sensitivity, reducing body fat, inflammation and
certain hormonal imbalances. So becoming more active
also makes life — in general — healthier and easier.
15. Sitting Disease
3 out of 4 full time employees of large companies wish
they didn’t spend most of their working hours sitting
67% of US office workers wish their employees offered
them desks that could be adjusted so they could work
either sitting or standing.
16. Life Expectancy
A recent study revealed that Americans' sedentary
lifestyle shortens their life expectancy. If Americans
would cut their sitting time in half, their life
expectancy would increase by roughly:
2 years (by reducing sitting to less than 3 hours a day)
1.4 years (by reducing TV time to less than 2 hours a
day)
17. Sitting vs. Standing
Sitting is harder on your back than standing.
Sitting tenses the hamstrings and causes a flattening of
normal curve in the low back. This distortion of the spine
increases the compression of the discs in the low back
area. Sitting upright or sitting in a forward bent position is
even worse!
20. Tendonitis
Repetitive wrist motions
Repetitive shoulder motions
Sustained hyper extension
of arms and wrists
Prolonged load on shoulders
Medial/Lateral
Epicondylitis
(Tennis/Golfers Elbow)
DeQuervians
21. Trigger Points
Taunt bands within a
muscle, creating a knot.
TrPs creates referred pain.
Usually due to poor posture
Consistently stretched
muscle, contracted muscle,
or fatigued muscle.
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25. NEAT
Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis
Includes stretching, turning, bending,
Aim for 10 minutes each hour
No excuses
Even if you workout, you may be sitting too long and
suffering from the sitting disease.
To prevent the sitting disease you have to look at the whole
day….what are you doing each hour?
Turn TV time into a productive time.
Iron while watching TV
Walk on a treadmill/stationary bike
Clean the room where the TV is
26. How to increase activity?
Increased activity simply means
Stand more (set a timer and stand hourly)
Take microbreaks every 30 minutes while working at a desk
Get a pedometer and count your steps — increase from
your baseline
Take stairs vs. elevator
Walk down the hall to co-workers instead of email
Adopt new habits
Stand during meetings, go for a walk with your co-worker as
you discuss ―abc‖.
VIDEO
27. Summary
If you can stand, don’t sit.
If you can walk, don’t stand.
If you can do something manually, don’t use a machine.
Study done by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys – 5000 people in study.
After a few hours of sitting the body starts to send harmful signals…..the gene’s that regulate the amount of glucose and fat begin to shutdown. Standing, walking, fidgeting, and contracting/relaxing the muscles every hour or more seems to reactivate the sleeping Lipoprotein Lipase enzymes. This stimulates your metabolism.