Back to Basics: A Guide to Good Back Health is an 11-page Canadian booklet that provides information on good posture, maintaining a good back and dealing with pain. Alberta’s Workers Compensation Board (WCB) has prepared a variety of resources to educate employees to the fact that activity and exercise is one of the best treatments for back pain. The campaign has the great title of “Don’t take back pain lying down.”
A couple of the free posters that can be downloaded
It has also produced a free calendar and posters to get the message across. Advice such as:- Keep your ankles in front (forward) of the knee—this helps keep your balance equal, and assists circulation in the legs. Don’t rest your feet on the spokes of the chair, & Keep a three-finger gap between the back of your knee and the edge of the chair’s seat, is given.
