Travel Without Pain: How to Safely Lift Your Luggage To Prevent Back Injury

 

✈ If you are travelling this March Break, lifting  your luggage correctly is key to preventing injury. Here are a few tried and true rules for lifting safely and preventing back injury: 🧳

✅ Bend your knees to lift with ease.

✅ Stand close to the load to be lifted.

✅ Place your feet shoulder width apart.

✅ Bend your knees and keep your back straight.

✅ Squat down to the level of the object and test the weight of the load.

✅ Ask for help if the load is too heavy or awkward!

✅ Use the strength of your leg and arm muscles (not your back) to smoothly and slowly lift the load. Try not to jerk when lifting.

✅ Keep the load close to your body.

✅ Never twist your body while turning and carrying the load.

✅ Pivot to turn in the direction you want to move toward.

✅ Bend your knees and slowly lower the load to its new location.

If you’ve injured yourself while lifting, a chiropractor can help assess, diagnose, and treat the injury and get you back to moving pain free.

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