This won't be relevant for busy Nurses and Physicians / Providers who are on their feet all day. This is a public service announcement for the work-from-home set.
After 14 months of working from home and sitting on a wooden chair for most of the day, perhaps you've experienced this as well: a perpetual sore butt. Maybe your first thought was to get a good seat cushion, or a new couch and maybe even a new mattress? But then you realize that your butt normally should not hurt by sitting down. That's one of it's chief functions!
So I did some research, and found articles on something called "dead butt syndrome," aka gluteal amnesia.
After reading up on it, I'm doing more stretches during the work day and have made it a point to get up more often. Moving more helps. Having a dog to walk helps, too.
We're due to be back on site in the physical libraries soon and I know many of us in the work-from-home set will be very glad to get back to our ergonomic chairs and desks. I've missed it, and my butt has, too!
- Dead Butt Syndrome Is One More Reason You Shouldn’t Sit All Day
- 'Dead Butt Syndrome' Is A Real Thing. Here's How To Tell If You Have It.
This DPT offers some exercises to alleviate this pervasive pandemic problem for the work-from-home set. Yeah for Rehab for offering such practical solutions!
Iliotibial band. Image courtesy S Bhimji MD
From: Anatomy, Bony Pelvis and Lower Limb, Iliotibial Band (Tract)
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From: Anatomy, Bony Pelvis and Lower Limb, Iliotibial Band (Tract)
Copyright © 2021, StatPearls Publishing LLC.
This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, a link is provided to the Creative Commons license, and any changes made are indicated.
Brought to your attention by your Ascension Wisconsin Librarians:
Michele Matucheski and Kellee Selden
Michele Matucheski and Kellee Selden
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