OT 430 blog: Posture

Proper body posture and body mechanics is extremely important for injury prevention and to promote safety. In someone who has bad posture and mechanics it is important to educated them on the proper way to sit and move so they can correct their posture before it leads to an injury. Lower back injuries are the most common work related injury and can be result of poor posture in a desk job or poor lifting mechanics in more physically demanding jobs.  Injuries resulting from poor posture and/or body mechanics can be very costly to the employers and the employees as well as leading to long term pain and loss of mobility. This can lead to employees having to take time off to recover which is not beneficial the employer or employee as well. As an occupational therapist you can show your client the proper way to lift heavy items while maintaining proper technique and limiting the stress placed on the back. A practitioner could also show the client alternative methods to lifting lighter items such as the golfer's lift. A therapist could also demonstrate the correct posture someone should sit in while at work and walk the client through the "slouch-overcorrect" technique so the client could do this in his/her work environment. 

OTAN 442 Blog 1

The first advertisement that comes to my mind is a billboard right off of downtown in my hometown of Corinth. This billboard, for as long as anyone I know can remember, has always been a Coca-Cola advertisement. In the winter it is a christmas advertisement with Santa holding a coke and in the summer it has some sort of advertisement trying to show how refreshing a coke would be in the summer heat. For those who do not know Corinth is a small town in northeast Mississippi. Corinth is home to one of only a few privately owned coca-cola plants left in the United States and the town treats it as kind of a big deal. We have an annual 10K race and a big museum on the over 100 year history of the plant. I believe this advertisement stands out to me because it is always consistent and takes me back in time. Everytime I go back and drive through my hometown it brings back all the memories from me growing up there. As far as the neurological aspects I am sure the limbic system plays a role in the emotional side of seeing the advertisement. All the good and bad memories from living in Corinth with friends and family. As well as the hippocampus storing all of the long term memories of the different styles of billboard that have been hung there for as long as I can remember.

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