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15% of local office workers suffer neck, waist problems: experts
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ABOUT 15 percent of local office workers suffer neck and waist problems due to long-time work before computers. Their incidence of suffering these is four to five times of people who don’t spend most of their working time by desk, medical experts told a forum on office workers’ disease prevention and control yesterday.
About 95 percent of local office workers suffer various health problems according to a health report issued by Shanghai Foreign Services Health Management Center based the results of staff’s physical checkup results. Neck and waist disorder, breast problems and thyroid diseases are increasingly common among this group.
“Unhealthy lifestyle such as looking at the computer and working by desk for too long time, a lack of exercise or improper exercise and bad sleeping habit like using high pillow can lead to neck and waist disorder,” said Dr Cheng Liming, director of Tongji Hospital’s orthopedics department.
Experts said healthy lifestyle and in-time treatment and rehabilitation are important for office workers to have a healthy neck and waist.
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