It was not a good day. Angie woke up in a lot of pain due to her not being able to sleep the night before. Pain while sleeping, pain upon waking; this was not looking good. Angie took the day off from work to get some sleep and to aggressively do the exercises that the physical therapist told her to do. Even though she had done them all weekend, she became obsessed that doing more of them would help her feel better.
After a few naps and a number of stretching sessions, she felt better but not great. Angie’s lower back was hurting more than her middle back today and she didn’t know why.
She boarded the subway for her appointment and went to her session. She learned a couple of new exercises and then lay on the table to get an assessment of the muscle after heating it up with exercise. Just as Angie had suspected, her lower back was far tighter than her middle back. Lily validated that and told her that one side was considerably tighter than her other side. Lily asked Angie if she used a dual monitor at work. Angie confirmed that she did. Lily went on to tell Angie that she needed to adjust her work station because it was affecting her back. If she turned more to one side than the other to do her work, her muscles were going to shorten on the side where she turned the most.
“I learn something every day!” Angie thought to herself.
Lily explained to Angie that the human body isn’t meant to sit down for so many hours a day and that many repetitive and small tasks could impact the body without us knowing. Angie needed to be more aware of these tiny repetitive motions. She got her heat pad but didn’t take a nap. Angie proceeded to watch a fellow injured person go through wrist manipulations and exercises for carpal tunnel syndrome.
After she left the session, Angie swore to tell all her work friends with dual monitors to make the adjustments they needed. Angie didn’t want anyone else to have to go through these issues she was having.
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