Work Injuries

We spend a large portion of our day, week, month, and year at work. With so much time spent in one place, it’s no surprise that injuries on the job are common. Accidents and injuries can happen at any time when you’re working. Still, if you’re aware of the most common injuries, you might be able to prevent them from happening.

The Most Common Work Injuries

• Overexertion injuries
  These types involve overexerting yourself when you’re lifting, pushing, holding, pulling, carrying, or throwing, which can result in strains, sprains, and tears.
• Slipping/tripping. These easily preventable injuries include tripping over something on the floor or slipping on a slick or wet surface.
• Falling from heights
  Another common injury includes people falling from ladders, roofs, and stairs.
  Non-falling reaction injuries
  If you slip or trip but don’t fall, your reaction might cause muscle injuries or other body trauma.
• Falling object injuries
  Sometimes you’re not the one falling, but something is falling onto you. Regardless of whether a co-worker drops something or an object falls from a shelf, head injuries can be severe.
• Walking into injuries
  You could injure multiple places on your body if you walk, run, or bump into a wall, door, cabinet, window, table, chair, or something else solid.
• Repetitive motion injuries
  Making the same motion over and over again, such as typing or cleaning, can cause muscle and tendon strain, pinched nerves, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other injuries.

Benefits of Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic is a fantastic solution to many different types of health problems. One of the issues that a chiropractor can help you to treat and possibly even prevent is a work injury. Here are a few of how chiropractic can benefit you if you become injured at work, as well as how they may be able to help you prevent a work injury in the first place!

• It’s Cost Effective!
  When employees utilize chiropractic care, it cuts health care costs for everyone. A study published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine in 2012 reported that when employees visit chiropractors, they spend less money on health care. That’s good news for every working person!
• It’s the Best Way to Recover
  Musculoskeletal pain, including lower back pain, is the number one reason for lost work time. Chiropractors are trained in the treatment of lower back pain, neck pain, and sciatica. So, being treated by a chiropractor get you back to work faster, and it might also be able to help you reduce the chances of becoming injured.
• It’s Natural
  Your chiropractor doesn’t want to treat your symptoms; they want to find the root cause of your injury and treat it. That means they want to help your body to find balance, and through finding balance improve performance as well as your body’s ability to heal itself when injured. Also, because it is a natural treatment option, chiropractic does not employ the use of pain medications – which have been found to increase a person’s chances of disability.
• It Treats a Wide Range of Injuries
  From simple strains and sprains to herniated or slipped discs, your chiropractor is qualified to treat many different types of injuries that can happen at work. Repetitive injuries, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, are prevalent in many workers as well.