It`s getting up to end of year, and many people are working hard preparing and packaging Christmas parcel orders. Yet among many of these workers, Lower Back Pain appears as a leading illness, representing 12m work-days lost in UK 2022/23; an average of 14 days can lost per afflicted worker. UK medical advice can be to see a GP doctor who might advise applying an ice-pack, seeing a Physio for verbal advice, or taking Aspirin, Ibuprofen etc.
Having worked on back pain / Sciatica victims over 23 years with Chinese TCM - Shiatsu, and myself suffering Sciatica too, I felt I had more to offer. So, I went north onsite at a corporate client in Derby and examined some of their ailing staff. Yes, many experienced bad lower back pains and were frankly struggling to remain at work during the whole of December. There`s a lot of staying sedentary while sitting at the PC and on the phone. It looks like keeping active at work, and protecting your back can be a tougher task than previously thought. Yet, if I could treat a dozen staff to alleviate their bad backs and prevent a deeper degree of chronic pain, then my job on Chinese TCM - Shiatsu has been worth doing to help my patients.