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Are you sick of sick employees?

If you want more longevity in your employee performance and health, you have come to the right place.

The smart employer of todays age knows how important employee health really is.

Less sick time and staff that feels it's best means more productivity and higher revenue for you.

Sixty percent of all employed Americans report having stress at work. Back pain is the biggest reason for long-term sickness in employees. The good news, it is in most cases avoidable with the right knowledge and team work. In people with advanced degeneration we can often achieve and maintain a higher level of performance so staff can still stay in the workforce.

Did you know:

Workers' compensation systems cover 127 million U.S. workers.1* The estimated annual cost for all occupational injuries and deaths is $128 billion to $155 billion,2* and the estimated annual cost for back pain is $20 billion to $50 billion.3* Lumbar injuries result in approximately 149 million lost work days per year; about two thirds of these days are caused by occupational injuries.4* The annual productivity losses resulting from lost work days are estimated to be $28 billion.4*

Median Disability Duration for Common Low Back Pain Diagnoses

Information from Musculoskeletal system and connective tissue. In: Work-Loss Data Institute. Official Disability Guidelines. 12th ed. Encinitas, Calif.: Work-Loss Data Institute, 2007:990-1023.

Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) are a group of painful disorders of muscles, tendons, and nerves. Carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, thoracic outlet syndrome, and tension neck syndrome are examples. They go by many names, such as

• Repetitive motion injuries.

• Repetitive strain injuries.

• Cumulative trauma disorders.

• Occupational cervicobrachial disorders.

• Overuse syndrome.

• Regional musculoskeletal disorders.

• Soft tissue disorders.

Reasons for the development of WMSD's are mostly

• Fixed or constrained body positions.

• Continual repetition of movements.

• Force concentrated on small parts of the body, such as the hand or wrist.

• A pace of work that does not allow sufficient recovery between movements.

WMSDs include three types of injuries:

• Muscle injury.

• Tendon injury.

• Nerve injury.

Overwhelming benefits of medical massage:

Research 10* has shown the inclusion of massage therapy can help with chronic pain such as back pain, headaches, osteoarthritis, and behavioral health issues like anxiety and depression, rehabilitation and athletic training and injury treatment.

Another study 8*found that massage may provide lasting relief for chronic lower back pain, according to research published in the journal Pain Medicine. Researchers looked at 104 people with persistent back pain who were referred by their doctors to licensed massage therapists. They went to 10 sessions over 12 weeks, and the practitioners were free to design massage programs that were individual to the patients, rather than all using the same technique.

Most subjects completed a questionnaire, and more than 50% reported clinically meaningful improvement in their back pain. Several people even dropped below the threshold for disability according to lead author Niki Munk, an assistant professor of health sciences at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Additionally, many of these improvements lasted. Three months later, with no further massage sessions, 75% of the people who reported initial improvement said they still felt better.

In a Harvard Medical School Publication 9* it was noted that therapeutic massage is now recognized as a legitimate therapy for some painful conditions, not just a luxury. It can possibly help to "close the pain gate" by stimulating competing nerve fibers and impeding pain messages to and from the brain.

To avoid office related illness, you and your team need three things

• musculoskeletal health

• awareness of what prevents and what causes illness at the work place

• application of what is learned and integration in daily life and work

How we at Corporate Longevity can help you achieve that goal.

We provide weekly, monthly or bi monthly corporate massages geared towards pain relieve and prevention of degenerative diseases commonly caused by stress and posture in office settings.

Several studies 6* show work site massage therapy reduces blood pressure, urinary and salivary cortisol levels, work stress and raises employee productivity and job satisfaction.

A study conducted at the Touch Research Institute in Miami, Florida, found that work site chair massage helped reduce anxiety. The study showed an improvement in brain performance and found that 15 minutes of chair massage was more effective than a 15-minute break to reduce anxiety. Employees receiving chair massage also had an increase in speed and accuracy in completing math equations. The brain’s ability to function more effectively combined with a decrease in anxiety and increase in feelings of contentment and well-being can result in improved job performance.7*

For optimal performance and effectivity each session consists of 50 min massage per employee,or on premise education about how to change the work place so every employee sits in the right ergonomic position and uses the right office furniture to reduce posture induced pain and degeneration.

In addition we offer seminars to help employers and employees to understand what causes their condition and what to do to counter it on a daily basis.

What you, the employer, needs to do

• Book a phone consult to get a quote

• Get your employees on a monthly program, they don't need to be the same employees every month, they can rotate. We need a minimum of 4 employees per session, max 14 per day. 

• Book a seminar at your location for optimum education on health awareness and application, no min or max required.

1. Green-McKenzie J. Workers' compensation costs: still a challenge. Clin Occup Environ Med. 2004;4:ix-8.

2. Schulte PA. Characterizing the burden of occupational injury and disease. J Occup Environ Med. 2005;47:607-22.

3. Pai S, Sundaram LJ. Low back pain: an economic assessment in the United States. Orthop Clin North Am. 2004;35:1-5.

4. Maetzel A, Li L. The economic burden of low back pain: a review of studies published between 1996 and 2001. Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol. 2002;16:23-30.

5. Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety; https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/diseases/rmirsi.html

6. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/44644874_Massage_therapy_in_the_workplace_Reducing_employee_strain_and_blood_pressure

7. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanrobinson/2021/02/22/how-massage-therapy-enhances-your-work-performance-and-career-success/?sh=51c5aea82c33

8.  https://academic.oup.com/painmedicine/article/18/7/1394/3069964?login=false

9. https://www.health.harvard.edu/therapeutic-massage-for-pain-relief

10. https://www.amtamassage.org/publications/massage-therapy-integrative-care-pain-management/