The Benefits of Desk Exercise

Desk Therapy brings benefits of regular desk exercise breaks to both individuals and employers.

For the Subscriber

Stretch in all its forms like yoga, pilates or prescribed exercises from a manual therapist like an osteopath has been shown to have numerous benefits both short and long term. It improves chronic, debilitating conditions like:

• Low back pain
• Neck pain
• Headache
• Migraine
• Frozen shoulder
• Tennis elbow
• Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)
• Eye strain and fatigue

It improves general health through it's positive impact on breathing and digestion, promotes relaxation and helps calm our minds which in turn improves our relationships with the world around us and other people. Taking regular "microbreaks" from work has been shown to improve productivity, reduce stress, reduce mistakes made, helps concentration, improve creative problem solving, increase enjoyment of ones work, promotes a sense of wellbeing and is a powerful preventative measure against Musculo-Skeletal Dysfunction (MSD). This can all be achieved without the user leaving their chair.

All these benefits are available to the member for just £29.99 £16.99 (inc. VAT) a year (less than the cost of just one session with an osteopath)

For the Employer

A healthy workforce is a more productive workforce and the statistics surrounding the costs to the employer, National Health Service (NHS) are staggering.

Low back pain and MSD are some of the biggest causes of absenteeism, costing businesses and the country an estimated £24.9bn per annum. Desk Therapy can help reduce this loss of productivity and direct cost in the form of sick pay as well as helping to create a more relaxed, conducive atmosphere. Any company that uses Desk Therapy demonstrates to its employees that they are being looked after and also shows that the employer is engaged in trying to reduce the incidence of work related pain to a minimum - an important point in this increasingly litigious age.