Backcare Awareness Week 7th-11th October
BACKCARE AWARENESS WEEK – 7th – 11th October - Back Care Awareness Week is an important week in our calendar, it should be in yours too. We have your backs covered.
Previous campaigns have focused on Working from Home; Studying at Home; Spending More Time at Home; Back Pain in Nursing; Back Pain in Golf. Together we can help avoid preventable back injury.
October 7-11, is Back Pain Week, also known as Back Care Awareness Week, run by the charity Backcare. It is an opportunity for employers to revisit and refresh health promotion and education around back care and back pain management, both for sedentary office-based workers and for those stuck behind the wheel for long hours.
Technically, this year’s Back Pain Week will focus on back pain in golf, where low back injuries account for 15.2% to 34% of all golf injuries. Anyone who has followed Tiger Woods’ return to the sport following chronic back problems – in his case very much an “occupational” injury – will be only too well aware of the challenges back pain can present in this context.
But acute and chronic back pain is, of course, a much wider challenge than just the golf course. This makes Back Pain Week a great opportunity for employers to revisit their health promotion, education and intervention in this area more generally.
