Locked doors - a Pain in the Neck or Managing Back-pain on the Flight Deck

摘要

Most of us probably see our profession and workplace as a bit special, or slightly out of the ordinary - rightly so too. It is a fact, though, with our job being mostly sedentary - in essence, certainly as far as your skeleton is concerned, you may as well be sitting at a computer desk in a busy office as at FL "nosebleed" maintaining Mach .84 ( cost index 0 - to most of us?). If you are one of the millions of workers in the UK to suffer either regular or periodic bouts of back- pain then perhaps you may wish to read on. Herein a few words on back-pain, its causes, the law, our situation, BALPA Occupational Health, and how to help yourself.