After months of compulsory teleworking, physiotherapists see patients arriving in their offices suffering from back and neck pain, but also knees.
Because of a bad work chair or a bad position in front of their laptop.
REPORTAGE
Containment is now behind us, the end of the curfew is approaching and the famous "life before" resumes, but many employees are still teleworking.
Or pay the consequences of long months of teleworking: back pain.
Since the first confinement, it has become one of the main reasons for consultation with physiotherapists.
>> Find Europe morning weekend in podcast and replay here
"The first pains came during confinement"
This is for example the case of François. Every week for a month, he sits on the massage table in a Parisian practice. The first pains in the lower back and neck came during confinement last year, until it became unbearable. In question: teleworking. "I have pain in the lower back which is mainly due to a bad work chair and also pain in the neck from the use of a laptop computer which forces me to have my head tilted. on my computer and my shoulders tightening ", he tells the microphone of Europe 1.
"I have 70% of patients who represent problems related to neck pain, low back pain and knee pain, because people spend their time remaining seated," notes Fanny Bakayoko, sports physiotherapist in normal times.
But since the Covid-19 epidemic, its clientele has changed completely.
Among the very simple tips, you can raise your laptop to eye level and add a keyboard underneath, take regular breaks and move around, for example making your phone calls while walking.