Back Safety and Back Pain Management
What you'll learn
- Understand the main causes of Lower Back Pain
- Understand how to manage your working and pleasure activities in order to protect your back from injurues
- Have a good knowledge and understanding of the components of the back and their susceptibility to damage
- Understand how manual lifting of objects, particularly awkward and heavier objects, can result in back pain.
- Have a good knowledge and understanding of the best ways to lift and carry components, to prevent undue stress on the back.
- Have the ability to safely treat back pain through the use of simple exercises
Requirements
- No experience required
Description
This short course is for all those people who suffer from back pain, or are concerned that their regular physical activities may cause damages to their back. It provides guidance on how to look after your back through the correct lifting, carrying and handling of various objects to prevent damaging the back. In the event of suffering from non-specific back pain, the course also gives some simple steps to take to relieve the pain and return your back to a good condition.
The course uses real video, and each o contains a downloadable set of course notes that can be printed and referred to at your convenience.
Everyone suffers from some form of back pain at some stage in their life, and an awareness of the potential causes and ways to mitigate any risks is an important step for all. This includes mothers with small children, workers with physical activities such as building, construction, warehousing, supermarket and shop packaging and even those who take part in occasional leisure activities like sport. It is important to understand what works for you and what to avoid, as we are all different.
This is not a course for those suffering from injuries as a result of specific accidents, where medical advice is needed.
Who this course is for:
- All people who suffer from weak backs and/or regularly lift and carry items, such as shopping
- Women with young children and babies
- Industrial factory workers where lifting and carrying is part of the job
- All warehouse personnel, shop stockers, supermarket shelf packers and similar activities
- All office workers who spend time sitting at desks
- Amateur sports enthusiasts, who do not play regularly or frequently
Instructor
- 4.0 Instructor Rating
- 2 Reviews
- 17 Students
- 3 Courses
Qualifications: BA(Hons) Geology & Zoology; HDip(Eng) - Welding Engineering; MBA. Qualified Tourist Guide, Competency Assessor and
I have been in the Whale and Dolphin Watching industry for many years, owning and operating 8 tourist vessels in the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town. I was instrumental in the 1990's in helping Marine & Coastal Management draft policies, rules and regulations to develop, start, monitor and control the boat-based whale and dolphin industry, a lot of which was adopted by other countries of the world.
I have been involved in training for the past 40 years, both as a hobby as well as a career. I enjoy designing, developing and delivering training, most of it now being short on-line courses.
My main passion is the sea and the conservation of the creatures living in it, and in doing so have travelled the world quite extensively. It is a difficult subject to teach, as there needs to be an underlying passion and empathy with the ocean and it's creatures. I still do a lot of boating, scuba diving, videoing and assist where possible with conservation of our planet.