Fine-Tuning Your Ergonomic Intervention
via Bella Online
Many computer and ergonomic websites now provide valuable information on guidelines for sitting and working posture. Many human resources personnel are being trained in ergonomic basics. However, there are times when everything at the workstation looks right but the worker continues to suffer from repetitive strain pain. Here are a few tips to fine-tune your ergonomic intervention.
Physio is key to full recovery
(NC) – When Toronto orthopaedic surgeon John Theodoropoulos is talking to patients about shoulder surgery, he explains that the procedure will only get them 50-per-cent better.
what I do is only half the battle – physiotherapy will take care of the other 50 per cent
Not that he’s anticipating a poor outcome, “But what I do is only half the battle – physiotherapy will take care of the other 50 per cent,” he says.
Patients prescribed an antibiotic wouldn’t expect to improve if they skipped doses, or didn’t take the medicine for the full period. When it comes to bones and joints, says Angelique Berg, executive director of the Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation, physiotherapy is frequently the prescription.
Comfortable Portable Computing: The Ergonomic Equation
via usernomics.com
Guidelines for comfortable portable computing …
“… While experts predict a steady increase in notebook sales through the end of 2010, consumers often don’t consider the compromises in comfort that are made when using such a computer. Based on academic research and years of manufacturing experience, Ergotron has published a white paper, Comfortable Portable Computing: The Ergonomic Equation, aimed at providing valuable, easy-to-use guidelines to help people achieve comfortable, more productive portable computing.
New program trains physio’s with physio assistants
via canada.com
Institute sets up shop in basement of continuing care facility
Jodie Sinnema, edmontonjournal.com
Published: Monday, February 25
EDMONTON – Lindsey Rayner first met Richard Boswell last year when she helped with his dinner at CapitalCare Dickinsfield.
Now, she’s hoping to become a licensed practical nurse and is being trained in the basement of the continuing care facility as part of a pilot project that better links nursing students with patients who need continuing care.
The project is part of a new partnership between CapitalCare, NorQuest College, Capital Health and the University of Alberta to create the Institute for Continuing Care, Education and Research.
Mangalore: Students urge Oscar
via mangalorean.com
By Team Mangalorean
Photographs: Rajesh Shetty
Mangalore, February 23, 2008: Various group of students including the ones that study Physiotherapy and members of Dakshina Kannada branch of Indian Association of Physiotherapists (IAP) have appealed to the Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment Mr. Oscar Fernandes to amend the physiotherapy council Bill introduced in the Parliament and which will be soon coming to Rajya Sabha.
Mr. Fernandes was in the city to inaugurate the students convention organised by the district unit of National Students Union of India (NSUI) to commemorate the centenary of Satyagraha movement by Gandhiji here today February 23, 2008.
