Occupational Health Care

Technological development has forced people who work at a computer to adopt awkward positions that cause them painful affect.

The pain in the back by a weakening of the muscles and bone and joint structures, are varicose veins, lower abdominal pain, weight gain with abdominal fat accumulation and increased cholesterol tired walking, climbing stairs, and when perform household chores that require physical exertion, which denotes lack of sports.

As such it has to be fought, but usually people are not considered sedentary and only realize when suffering from a disease that could have been prevented by exercise. Therefore we have developed a program to run in the workplace during free time, designed to stretch muscles, improve blood circulation and correcting poor posture.

The exercises will be preventive for:

• Reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease mortality.
• Preventing or delaying the development of hypertension, in addition to lowering blood pressure values in hypertensive patients.
• Reduce the risk of non-insulin dependent diabetes.
• Minimize the risk of certain cancers (colon, breast and prostate).
• Improved weight control.
• Helping to maintain as much to improve strength and muscular endurance by increasing the functional capacity to perform other physical activities of daily living.
• The structure should contribute to maintaining and joint function, which can be beneficial against osteoarthritis.
• Reconciling and improve sleep quality.
• Improve personal image.
• Facilitate the release of tension and improve stress management.
• Combat the symptoms of anxiety and depression, increasing the enthusiasm and optimism.

Collar workers who stay long in unsuitable seats, with several hours in front of computers on desktops not designed to maintain proper posture for osteomioarticular and visual system, may suffer heavy damage affecting the functional efficiency and quality of their work .

Usually, in the workplace these people have no chairs designed to support your back, so they are complaining about pains in her legs and.

The joint exercises in the free minutes during the workday will improve cell metabolism. Recommended for mobilizing the different anatomical parts of the body require just a few minutes on the job occupying the chair and repeated itself several times a day without affecting work duties and fostering better physical and intellectual capacity.

It will reduce the fatigue caused by the work itself and eliminate the stress.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) surveys in the world are remarkably similar in the proportion of sedentary or near sedentary adults, which varies between 60% and 85%. Today’s culture has led millions of people to a point where it is urgent to implement effective health measures to promote physical activity and improve health.

In Cuba the increase of metabolic diseases such as diabetes mellitus, obesity, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases and cerebrovascular diseases are a concern in priority the search for solutions to ensure a better quality of life of the population.

Because there are favorable results in multiple health status of patients with these conditions, we recommend the application of these exercises to workers and managers who sit for long.

Description of exercises: (repeat four times)

1. An employee sitting in her job puts her left hand on the knee and the foot does force against the floor, mentally count to three and changes to the other knee to apply pressure right foot against the floor.
2. The left leg up and will force the left hand will counterforce, mentally count to three and changes to the other leg.
3. Knees together, try to separate them but hands forcefully prevented from doing so. Count to three and relax.
4. Knees apart, try joining the force, but is prevented from doing hands counterforce.
5. Take the back seat against the back of contracting the back muscles and upper limbs. Count to three.
6. Holding the contraction of the trunk is tilted forward. Count to three.
7. Holding the contraction of the trunk to make turns right and then left. Count to three.
8. Contraction of the abdominal muscles and back, raise one arm. Count to three and repeat with opposite arm.
9. Exercise for neck extension and flexion. Rotate to the right and left.
10. Exercise for knee flexion and extension individually.
11. Cross one leg over the other by the ankles.
12. Lift hard and the one below the other will counterforce.
13. Ankle Exercises: extension and flexion.
14. Based on the bureau will squat and then incorporated.

In all exercises will take the air through the nose and expel it through your mouth slowly.

Tags: anatomical, anxiety, blood circulation, cardiovascular disease, chairs designed, depression, Exercises, metabolic diseases, osteoarthritis, osteomioarticular, physical activity, stress management, visual system, weight control, Working with Computers, workplace

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