Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live in.

Jim Rohn

Pain and Injury Prevention: Be Kind to your Body

Since home settings can be unpredictable, a good understanding of employer’s transfer policies, proper body mechanics, correct stretches and core strengthening exercises can help reduce overall injury risk.

Wellness Fact

The biomechanical strain on a caregiver who weighs 80 kg, is 186 cm tall and is bent 45 degrees forward, lifting a client’s legs, weighing 10 kg, at a reaching distance of 30 cm places a whooping 255 kg strain in the lumbar area (weight of a male lion). The act of moving the client’s legs increases the load to the equivalent of a rhino weighing 765 kg!

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