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Teleworking is usually equivalent to spending the day sitting in front of a laptop at the kitchen or dining room table. "Very bad", that the experts in labor risks would say. "The chairs at home are not designed to spend so many hours in the same position. The height of these tables was not designed for writing, either. It is normal to end up with the upper back or the lumbar region loaded," explains Carmen Sanz Bando, physiotherapist. and director of Physiotherapy Bando. How much you miss the physio, right?
"We must remember that we do attend emergencies and all attend by video consultation," says Pablo Herrera, vice dean of the Professional College of Physiotherapists of the Community of Madrid (CPFCM). And that healing is not massage: " Physiotherapists not only treat you when they touch you. Many people think that this is what heals, but it is not so. Touching only inhibits pain. To achieve a cure, you have to do physical work that, All in all, it is not the exclusive domain of the coaches. The difference is that they use exercise to improve performance, and we use it to treat a pathology. In the short term, manual therapy works well, but in the medium- long we must work with the strengthening ".
Going to the practical: what would be the indications that would give us our physio of head to alleviate the annoyance, respecting the confinement? "The first thing to know is that you have to work with discomfort but without pain, which is an alarm signal that can worsen the situation . In the body we have neuroreceptors that are activated by pressure, temperature or chemical changes And depending on the intensity of these stimuli, they are activated to a greater or lesser extent.These send a signal to the marrow that ends in the brain, which, if detected as a threat [by very intense], increases pain. no, it decreases it. This is what the trigger point technique we use in physiotherapy is based on: we know that, just by touching, we emit a signal that will have a consequence. Press on the typical elbow point with moderate intensity. after about thirty seconds you will see that the discomfort is disappearing ... The brain detects it as non-dangerous and reduces it. By repeating it, it gradually fades. Temporarily, of course. If there is a real injury we have to accompany Add this technique with an exercise that will be the one that really cures. " This is applied according to where the discomfort is.
Tennis balls to massage the neck
At the base of the skull there are several trigger points. Where exactly? "There are several theories about how they are arranged in the body, but we defend that you have to locate them yourself. It is that point where you touch and annoy", continues Herrera, "once located, take two tennis balls and put them in a sock. tie a knot so they don't come off. lie on your back on a semi-soft surface. like a yoga mat or mat, in bed no. place the base of the skull between the two balls and massage the trigger points while breathing deeply and calm. It's a great relaxation technique. Just remember to get up slowly when you're done. In general, with anything you do that has to do with your neck, "he says.
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