Work From Home Ergonomics

Overview:

Working from home (WFH) may be your new reality but muscle pain and tension do not have to be part of it. With a little knowledge of applied ergonomics, we can leverage increased flexibility to significantly improve your experience.  

Join Jonas Eyford, Chiropractor and Founder of Recharge Wellness, for a lunch hour of self-care. He will provide easy and useful tips to improve your WFH experience and explain the value of Virtual Therapy to keep you finely tuned!

This course contains a dozen short and to-the-point videos to illustrate the important factors of setting up and using a home office.

What You Will Learn:

In this short and to-the-point course, you will learn about the fundamental principles and practices for working from home to better improve your overall experience. You will learn about:

• General principles of Posture and Movement
• The type of surfaces you should sit or stand on
• The Three Position Cycle principle
• The Three Pillow Rule
• Home equipment that’s specific to your needs
• Timing your work sessions
• Effective break taking strategies
• Self treatment strategies and exercises for areas of increased tension
• Workspace Organization

Course Time:

This course will take approximately 25 minutes to complete and you will receive a certification of completion after you have completed the course.

Target Audience:

This online course is for Physiotherapists (Physical Therapists), Chiropractors, Osteopaths, and other healthcare professionals working from home; however it is also relevant and available for the public.  

Overview Of Course Content:

1. Introduction 

   1. Intro
   2. Topics Covered
      
      

2. Principles And Practice 

   1. Posture
   2. Movement
   3. Three Position Cycle
   4. Crouch & Bed
   5. Sitting Better
   6. Standing Better
   7. Useful Equipment
   8. Time Boxing
   9. Better Breaks
   10. Self Treating
   11. Workspace Organization
       
       

3. Conclusion

   1. Summary
   2. Course Feedback

Final Thoughts:

So many of us are fixated on our posture when really, we should be focused on movement.

Understanding our need for movement, developing strategies to meet our movement needs, self-treatment strategies, and workspace organizations are core concepts this to-the-point course will help reinforce to better significantly improve your work from home experience.