Frequent breaks prevent work-related injuries and illnesses
A large Korean study involving 25,439 employees found that work-related injuries were significantly associated with long working hours. The risk of work-related injuries increased with increasing working hours in a dose–response pattern in those who took insufficient rest breaks, while the risk was not significant...
Benefits of taking covid vaccine
A recent CDC study showed that unvaccinated people are almost 5 times more likely to be infected by the coronavirus and 29 times more likely to be hospitalized with covid compared to fully vaccinated individuals. Therefore, all the evidence suggests that the millions of those…
Johnson & Johnson covid vaccine
By end-August 2021, 14 million Americans have received the Johnson & Johnson covid vaccine. This is a little over 8% of the 170.8 million Americans who are fully vaccinated, the rest having received a Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccine. In early August 2021, the South...
Half of covid patients who were hospitalised have symptoms after 12 months
A study published in Lancet journal of 1276 patients from Wuhan shows almost 50% of all hospitalised patients with severe covid had some symptoms even after 12 months, while 1 in 3 had shortness of breath. The study findings suggest that recovery for some patients...
Higher risk of blood clot after covid infection than after vaccine
A coronavirus infection poses a higher risk for developing a blood clot than the first dose of either the Oxford/AstraZeneca or the Pfizer/BioNTech jab, according to a study led by the University of Oxford involving 29 million people who were vaccinated with the first doses of either...
The mask paradox
Wearing a mask definitely additionally protects. We continue to wear mask in closed spaces (offices, restaurants etc.) even when the covid cases are low with the hope that in the near future we would relax wearing the mask, knowing well that perhaps the cases will...
Long covid – role of OH (occupational health) physician
Long covid is a prolonged illness experienced by patients who have recently recovered from a covid infection. The symptoms continue for more than 12 weeks after a covid infection and can't be explained by another cause. Long covid is real and impacts ability to work...
Is ‘virtual physiotherapy’ useful during a pandemic
If 'virtual physiotherapy' is unheard of, so was mass-scale working from home until early 2020. Something is better than nothing. Working from home for most have been uncomfortable due to space constraints and ergonomic workstation settings leading to increase in musculoskeletal problems. Prolonged restrictions on...
