Introduction Nurses with Back Pain has always been as issue and as yet still needs to be addressed.
Related to the study of back pain factors here are some ways to reduce nurses back pain when they are doing activities in Hospital as the following:- Using lifting assistance devices.
A variety of devices is available to help lift and move patients from bed to seat, such as a Gait belt: This is a special belt that fit snugly around the patients waist and has hand straps for the nurse or caregiver to grasp while assisting during transfers or walking.
Sometimes, as research has shown, when there are staff shortages nurses are left to fend for themselves and the equipment isn't there.
So they are 'compelled' to manage at their own risk.
Research also showed that nurses with back pain often neglect themselves, they are tired when they finish work and are less motivated to something, easier to take a pill!! Pain "But I love my job, and get satisfaction knowing I am helping someone get well, even if I sometimes have to go through pain to do it".
Care Nurses is one profession who are susceptible in getting low back pain under their daily activity,need also to be more aware of taking care of themselves with exercise to re-balance their bodies.
Even just a minutes a day of Yoga is great for this.
What would be good, is that employers allow their nurses one hour a week in house to exercise and address the 'pain' whether shoulder or back with yoga classes.
Our healthcare system is really messed up.
Of 47 nursing staff at an acute care hospital, the reported occurrence of some form of back pain during their career was found to be 80.
As the number of manual handling injuries in carers and nurses continues to be very high, the problem of how to prevent injury has not been solved.
Injury Many people start yoga because of an injury.
"If you stay in bed for longer than two days, your circulation will slow down, your muscles and joints will stiffen and you'll actually increase your chances of another back injury.
Safety The daily activity such as, bed making, turning bed-ridden patients, transferring among stretchers, beds and chairs, move patients from bed to wheelchair, indeed if the patient was unconscious, emergency cases, nurses ignore doing safety to their self.
For example nurses who work in emergency department and ICU who all patients are high dependent attention and fast action from nurses, so some time they didn't care to their safety first because they want to save the patients life.
Nurses must have knowledge to understand about safety procedure how to doing manual handling in the hospital area or safety officer department must be control to nurses activity with safety procedures, without knowledge and safety control injuries and back pain cases come out lead.
Exercise In a study reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2005, patients given a sequence of yoga poses by yoga therapist designed by Gary Kraftsow, improved more than did patients given a self-care book or sent to exercise class.
One of the best ways to ease up back pain is exercise.
Contrary to what we knew in the past that chronic back pain can be eased up by resting and spending as much time in bed as possible, medical studies showed that movements and low impact exercise can actually help ease chronic back pain.
Yoga exercises are especially beneficial for people whose bones and muscles are aching.
However, he said: "Yoga requires learning about exercise as well as doing it, and active treatments, where patients take the initiative, are already recognised to be better than ones where they are just passive recipients.
Conclusion Yoga does work and is very effective.
Even if one does just a few minutes a day will bring results.