35% to 50% of the world population suffers from low back pain. This is responsible, in a country like France alone, for 110,000 sick notes per year. Each sick note requesting on average 33 days off work, which is the equivalent of 3,5 million working days lost. The US government spends at least 50 billion dollars each year in low back pain prevention and treatment.

Low back pain is a huge public health problem and represents a huge cost for companies. The back belt program is not enough. A study, published in 2000 found no evidence that back belts reduce back injury or back pain for retail workers who lift or move merchandise.

Can back pain be efficiently prevented? Can the considerable financial loss it represents for companies be significantly reduced? Yes, by providing your employees with an ergonomic awareness training program which will teach them how to acquire correct gestures and postures.

The gesture, posture & ergonomic awareness program lasts 6 hours. It is suited for groups of 8 to 12 people, and addresses the following topics:

• Back bone physiology.
• The origin of back pain.
• The good gestures and postures, adapted to a work station.
• Exercises to strengthen the back.

This training course is delivered by well-established physiotherapists and osteopaths and is supervised by a Medical Doctor specialised in sports medicine and osteopathy.

This training is both theoretical and practical.