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Prof. Maj. Dr S Bakhtiar ChoudharyMD Sports Medicine (Switzerland), D.Litt. PhD.
Consultant
Sports medicine, Ergonomics and Work place managementE-mail: [email protected]: 9849136940
Occupational Health FitnessErgonomics & Workplace
management
Officer’s Health is
Expensive
1.90% Indoors
2.10% Outdoors
Your Job
Current Health Management Current Health Practices
• Out Patient Treatment
• Hospital Admissions
• Health Checks
Areas Neglected
• Insufficient Health education (Direction)
• Poor Ergonomics awareness
• Poor Nutritional awareness
• Fitness & Preventive attitude
1. To increase work performance
2. To decrease the long term detrimental health effects.
3. Work Station Design( Situation)
Ergonomics Issues
Science > Man - Machine partnership for purposeful activities to do work more effectively
Ergonomics and Problems
Repetitions
Grip
Reaching equipment
Body Posture
Loading and Lifting
Ergonomics and Posture
Abuse Posture
EMG radiationDefective Posture AccidentsTumors in the brainHeadachesSleeplessnessHypertensionAnxietyBigger the phone-more the radiation
Relaxing (axing the neck) : TV---viewing
Standing Jobs: Work Stations levels: Effect on Body
Sitting Ducks
•Excess Sitting
•Excess appetite
•Excess Calories
•Defective diet
•Inadequate exercise / activities
•Early Disease
Losses in One decade of Sitting
Loss of Muscle: 10-15 kg
Loss of Bone Calcium: 720 g
Breathe Less: 20-30% oxygen during
sitting
Breathing oxygen of 7 years in 10
years
Increase in Body fat: 10-15 kg
Decrease in Plasma volume by 15%
Decrease in ROM in major joints by 30
%
Decrease in immunity by 20-30%
Premature aging 3 years every decade
POOR SITTING
Neck strain
Shoulder strain
Back Strain
Hand strain
Tall-poor sitting
No back support
FHP
Poor Sitting
No foot rest
No back support
FHP
Catastrophe
High Angle of tendon
Biomechanics
Static Loading
Dynamic loading
Force
Browne et al. Med J Aust 1984; March 17: 329-332.
EMG ID 0390
CONDITIONS ICH 200 µV/DIV
HIGH CUT 3 KHz
LOW CUT 20Hz
HUM FILTER ON
SWEEP TIME 50 mS/DIVAmp 3.50mV
Trapezius : Awkward posture (Mouse)
EMG ID 0390
CONDITIONS ICH 200 µV/DIV
HIGH CUT 3 KHz
LOW CUT 20Hz
HUM FILTER ON
SWEEP TIME 50 mS/DIV
Amp 870 V
Trapezius :Corrected posture (Mouse)
Choudhary S. Bakhtiar at al. Ind Journal Occu Env Med 2002; 6(1) 10-11
• Simple eye strain, dry eye syndrome
• Gaze angle problems
• Illumination
• Asthenopia; resulting from ocular muscles
• Visual fatigue from neck posture.
• Accommodation disturbances
• With myopia increased risk of glaucoma.
Masayuki et al. Journal of epidem and com health 2004; 58:1021-1027.
Work Related Eye Problems
Every body has beautiful Spine
Immediate Effects of Office Chair Sitting on the Lumbar
Spine
Normal
Optimum curvature
Tall
Loss of curvature
Short
Exaggerated curvature
Wrong Lifting technique
SSS: Straight Spine Syndrome
Choudhary S. Bakhtiar, Suneetha S. Deb PS: Forward head posture is
the cause of Straight Spine Syndrome in many professionals, Ind J Ocu
Env Med 2000 Sept; Vol 4,(3); 122-124.
26 years
29 years
Urban Neck Syndrome
Reversible functional disorder
Lift With the Legs -- NOT THE BACK.
Fitness Promotion
Types of exercise
1. Mobility exercises
2. Walking / Cycling3. Breathing
exercises
Based on your capacity
Follow the right advice
Stop when problemStart low intensity
Exercise Prescription
(FITT principle)
Frequency: 5 times a week
Intensity: Start slowly increase
Type: Choose suitable
Time: Any Time
Duration: 5-90 min
30----60-----90 min
Strength exercises : thrice a week
Doing is Must than Planning
Desk bond stretches
Personal Level•Correct Ergonomics
•Correct Posture
•Detection of early Hypertension
•Control of Obesity
•Improving fitness
•Detection of early RSI
•Stress Coping skills
•RSI prevention Exercise Programmes
•Personal protection equipment
1.Exercise: HDL
2.Gravity: Calcium
3.Sunlight : Vit D
4.Posture: MSD
Four Natural protections
It’s never Too lateEarlier the Better
Exercise is a habit
