Housework and back pain

Housework should thanks to modern technology for the back no problem. But far from it. Not all equipment and Yours move meet requirements. Consumers should always be diverse, individual settings ensure advises the German Green Cross Association (DGK) in Marburg.
Even the strongest backs will someday crooked and hurts when he must bend permanently, "notes Dr. Dietmar Krause, ergonomics expert DGK, solid. Particularly incriminating activities in the budget window cleaning, vacuuming or wiping. With the right tool could be some charges avoid. "It is especially important that the equipment to the user to adjust and not vice versa," advises Krause. Therefore, in a swipe device, for example, the stalk can be extended. Because no man alike. 
Household appliances like a vacuum cleaner is already significantly more complex demands on the back of kindness:
• The intake pipe should be long enough to even inaccessible areas under beds or on the ceiling within easy reach. • At the same time, the intake pipe quickly and easily on the individual amount of work to adapt.
• An integrated, flexible hose extension can, for example, while working on stairs below the vacuum cleaner let stand.
• Vacuum cleaner on wheels are back-friendly than devices for which the total load on the handle to use.
• The roles should be easy to steer and turn around leave.
• The handle should be shaped so that the hand loose from above can be accessed without the wrist abzuknicken.
• A mobile affixing of the vacuum hose allows ergonomic movements and also relieves the wrist.
• Filter boxes should be easily accessible and a change without contortions possible.
• Frequently used equipment should be easily accessible.
"The whole thing is of course only slightly, if the user the device is also true when cleaning up and to ensure a good attitude," said Krause. Therefore, basic knowledge about the correct posture is necessary. Convey these back schools with the necessary skills.