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Teaching is without a doubt an incredibly demanding job. It stresses physical, mental, and emotional health daily. While teachers are serving the next generation, Solveglobal strives to serve teachers so they can move and feel their best at home and at work.  One way teachers can improve their physical health on the job is by incorporating a warm-up routine before their first class and repeating it during breaks. Throughout the day, teachers transition quickly from [...]

Fire and rescue personnel, the military, law enforcement, and other first responders face many physical and mental demands. Also referred to as " tactical athletes,” these individuals routinely perform challenging feats of athleticism to serve, protect, and save people’s lives.  Firefighters must climb ladders and break through roofs and doors. EMTs are called on to extract passengers and respond to life-and-death situations. Police officers have to be ready to suddenly chase after a suspect. Military [...]

As the new school year approaches, it is vital for teachers to set up their classrooms for success—for the incoming students and the teachers themselves.   The most common injuries for teachers can be caused by slips and falls or subject-related injuries. When thinking about setting up your classroom, think about these things:  Walking space: As slips and falls are the most common cause of injury for teachers, it is important to think about how [...]

Resolving your employees’ pain – not retaining cases!  The digital-only MSK solutions on the market tout a 7% employee engagement rate. On top of this, they advertise retaining cases. One top-MSK solution promoted to have 300 cases retained year over year.    Now, what can we make of retaining cases?   Musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders include any pain, discomfort, or injury to the bones, joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves, and discs. When looking at injuries, there are 3 [...]

Pain is a problem. An estimated 54% of your employee population is in pain, and this number doesn’t go down. Why? Because a pain-first approach does not look deeper than the pain. Let’s look at the numbers. The digital-only MSK solution industry holds a 7% standard for employee engagement. This means only 7% of your employees take advantage of an MSK benefit. Within this 7%, 6% of employees take advantage of this benefit because of [...]

It goes without saying that firefighting is an incredibly physical job. In 2017, a survey of firefighters revealed that injuries commonly occurred at:  The fireground (42%)  Non-fire emergency incidents (21%)  Other on-duty activities (16%)  Training activities (14%)  The response to or return from an incident (8%)  No matter where an injury took place, it was found that the most prevalent type of injury was strains, sprains, and muscular pain. Another word for this is a [...]