Preventing Injury While Spring Cleaning

This time of year many people want to clean out their closets, reorganize their things, or re-decorate for spring.

 

The most common injuries with this are neck and shoulder pain. Why is that?

It’s the weekend warrior syndrome with exercise. We usually start to tackle those jobs on the weekends when we can get a lot done all at once.  People often find themselves in awkward positions with their neck and arms that they don’t do regularly or haven’t done for a long time.

 

How long do we spend looking up during the day or having our arms overhead?

  • Painting
  • Cleaning out closets with shelves of different levels
  • Washing the base boards and radiators
  • Cleaning all the windows and putting up screens

All these cause us to hold your arms up overhead, over-reaching to the side and looking up to do it. The other problem is we over reach thinking we will get done quicker especially if on a ladder and that also sets us up for shoulder pain.

Watch the video for tips and exercises you can do to help avoid neck and shoulder pain while Spring cleaning.

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