How To Bend Forward Properly | How to Lift Things Well | Healthy Manual Handling Techniques
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Back school trainers usually teach that the golden rule of manual handling is: bend your knees to go down and lift weight. This is a physiological lie which has caused many cases of knee pain, lower back pain and disc hernia!
Let me demonstrate the 3 healthy techniques to lift a load, and show you when they are best applicable: we have
- lift a foot for light weights directly on the floor
- bring a foot backwards for medium weights at mid height
- bend your knees for heavy loads above your knees...
And guess what! There's nothing foreseen by Mother Nature to carry heavy weight directly from the ground. This is the drama of many professions such as paramedics, and this is why we all need a good ergonomist to think about technical and organisational alternatives.
If you like this video, share it with your family and friends, and help them protect their back as well!
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Olivier you always knock these videos out of the park. You are really are saving my life from understanding my posture and how to use my body. I couldn't be more happy with your book as well. please keep uploading content. Im following your book along with FHP and these back saving ideas to keep my body happy.
Now I know why I wrecked my knees by squatting on both knees to pick up something....golden rule for crooks called doctors to keep us running back to them to fatten their wallets. I was having problems with my right hip and lower back and right knee at the same time and figured the knee and the hip were connected somehow in mal alignment. Exercises given on the net helped me get rid of the lower back pain and the knee is now improving. Thanks for this advice....I searched for "how to bend down and rise up correctly" and your video was on the list! Thanks again and will share your advice.
very helpful
This is so helpful. Thank you
I agree ;) !! Can you help me spread the word, e.g. by reposting this video?
Hi,
I am experiencing different kind if problem from many days. If I sit on a chair for long time (around an hour), I get pain around my navel region and lower abdomen (not inside stomach but on the stomach muscles). I have tried lot of stuff but nothing is helping me.
Can you please help me???
I laughed out loud at "...how the hell this load arrived here & what we can change..." b/c I've been c/o abt not having ergonomists to guide us in a myriad ways as an RN of 30+yrs and one who has not been able to make the "body mechanics" I was taught to use & to teach patients work properly--often w/out falling over, 'straining' something, etc. I thought it was just my inherent lack of coordination, muscle strength, etc. If it is possible to donate even more of your time than you already have so generously given, can you do the movements a bit slower/& or repeat them, as it went a bit too fast for me to fully grok. I got confused re: the S.M.L. sequence, ie do you still go all the way down to get a light item off the floor, or does the item have to be tall & light. Thanks very much for spreading this important info so generously❣I will surely be encouraging people (especially my peers in health care) to watch this & buy your book.
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