The findings of a recent study published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine suggest that one way to enhance your employees’ wellness while reducing costs is to offer on-site chiropractic care.
As a result, the authors reported that chiropractic care “demonstrated significant improvements in headache, neck pain, and low back pain.“ On-site services over a short timeframe showed lower utilization of services such radiology procedures, physical therapy, medication, and cost outcomes than those who obtain their care at off-site community care centers.
Having on-site chiropractic clinics in workplaces provides employees more convenient access to safe, effective care for musculoskeletal conditions. Since it reduces employees’ pain and disability, it improves both their productivity and their job satisfaction. It also leads to lower overall healthcare costs for the company in the long run. In short, providing on-site chiropractic services has been found to benefit the workforce as well as employers in a variety of important ways. If companies looking to improve productivity and reduce medical expenses having a chiropractic service on site is the future.
If you are a business owner who is seeking to increase company productivity, chiropractic can offer you results. Many know that chiropractic can alleviate physical symptoms, like back and neck pain, but many people don’t know that chiropractic can also eradicate several other physical ailments, as well as eliminate many physiological and emotional concerns.
Particularly if you’re interested in corporate wellness plans for the sake of increasing company productivity and decreasing sick days amongst employees, chiropractic is an excellent way to bring about overall health, general positivity, and countless other benefits to your employees.
Back and neck pain is one of the most complaint around in the work environment. Sitting at computers, lifting heavy objects, or standing up for hours can all contribute to discomfort in the back and neck, and discomfort leads to extra breaks, distraction from tasks, and more days home from work due to pain.
When your spine is healthy and at its optimum functionality, the more potential you have for a healthy body. The healthier you feel, the happier and more productive you can be in life.
If you spend majority of your day (at home) working at a desk or sitting with a poor posture you are more susceptible to have weak or tight neck or low back muscles. You can always improve your posture and muscular coordination with proper exercise, adjustment to your work station and chiropractic treatment.
Muscle release technique also known as Active Release Technique (ART) is a manual therapy technique that helps alleviate soft tissue restrictions that cause pain and mobility issues. The goal of ART is to break down scar tissue and adhesions in an effort to optimize function in the body.
Benefits include: