| Introduction | | | | Many people start yoga because of an injury. "If you |
| Nurses with Back Pain has always been as issue and | | | | stay in bedfor longer than two days, your circulation will |
| as yet stillneeds to be addressed. Related to the study | | | | slow down, yourmuscles and joints will stiffen and you'll |
| of back pain factorshere are some ways to reduce | | | | actually increase yourchances of another back injury. |
| nurses back pain when they are doingactivities in | | | | Safety |
| Hospital as the following:- Using liftingassistance | | | | The daily activity such as, bed making, turning |
| devices. | | | | bed-riddenpatients, transferring among stretchers, beds |
| A variety of devices is available to help lift and move | | | | and chairs, movepatients from bed to wheelchair, |
| patientsfrom bed to seat, such as a Gait belt: This is a | | | | indeed if the patient wasunconscious, emergency |
| special beltthat fit snugly around the patients waist and | | | | cases, nurses ignore doing safety to theirself. |
| has hand straps forthe nurse or caregiver to grasp | | | | For example nurses who work in emergency |
| while assisting during transfersor walking. Sometimes, | | | | department and ICU whoall patients are high |
| as research has shown, when there arestaff | | | | dependent attention and fast action fromnurses, so |
| shortages nurses are left to fend for themselves and | | | | some time they didn't care to their safety firstbecause |
| theequipment isn't there. So they are 'compelled' to | | | | they want to save the patients life. |
| manage attheir own risk. | | | | Nurses must have knowledge to understand about |
| Research also showed that nurses with back pain | | | | safety procedurehow to doing manual handling in the |
| often neglectthemselves, they are tired when they | | | | hospital area or safetyofficer department must be |
| finish work and are lessmotivated to something, easier | | | | control to nurses activity with safetyprocedures, |
| to take a pill!! | | | | without knowledge and safety control injuries andback |
| Pain | | | | pain cases come out lead. |
| "But I love my job, and get satisfaction knowing I am | | | | Exercise |
| helpingsomeone get well, even if I sometimes have to | | | | In a study reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine in |
| go through pain todo it". | | | | 2005,patients given a sequence of yoga poses by |
| Care | | | | yoga therapistdesigned by Gary Kraftsow, improved |
| Nurses is one profession who are susceptible in getting | | | | more than did patients givena self-care book or sent |
| low backpain under their daily activity,need also to be | | | | to exercise class. |
| more aware oftaking care of themselves with | | | | One of the best ways to ease up back pain is |
| exercise to re-balance theirbodies. Even just a minutes | | | | exercise. Contraryto what we knew in the past that |
| a day of Yoga is great for this. | | | | chronic back pain can be easedup by resting and |
| What would be good, is that employers allow their | | | | spending as much time in bed as possible,medical |
| nurses one houra week in house to exercise and | | | | studies showed that movements and low impact |
| address the 'pain' whethershoulder or back with yoga | | | | exercise canactually help ease chronic back pain. |
| classes. | | | | Yoga exercises are especially beneficial for people |
| Our healthcare system is really messed up. Of 47 | | | | whose bonesand muscles are aching. However, he |
| nursing staffat an acute care hospital, the reported | | | | said: "Yoga requireslearning about exercise as well as |
| occurrence of some formof back pain during their | | | | doing it, and activetreatments, where patients take the |
| career was found to be 80. | | | | initiative, are alreadyrecognised to be better than ones |
| As the number of manual handling injuries in carers and | | | | where they are just passiverecipients. |
| nurses continuesto be very high, the problem of how | | | | Conclusion |
| to prevent injury has notbeen solved. | | | | Yoga does work and is very effective. Even if one |
| Injury | | | | does just a fewminutes a day will bring results. |