Course Venue: Rydges Sydney Central, 28 Albion Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010

Dentistry can be a very challenging profession. Dentists work in confined spaces in physically demanding positions, within an emotionally charged environment and with stressed people who for the most part, prefer not to be there. This can lead to back and neck pain, RSI, stiff muscles and stress for dental practitioners.

This one-day practical workshop will teach you a daily program of warm up movements to prepare your body for work each day, and for some participants it will help relieve pain and stress or recover from injury.

Dr Penelope Jones created the Working Posture workshop specifically tailored to members of the dental profession. As a dentist, Penelope fully understands what dental practitioners face within the workplace and has developed a practical workshop to help reverse the problems.

Course Outline

The workshop consists of “awareness through movement” lessons to help unlearn postural habits developed over the years. You will learn how to align your body when seated, so your weight is supported by more than the skeleton. This is achieved through understanding how to release tense muscles and tone wasted muscles for better trunk stability.

Participants will be guided to find better alignment through strength and with ease and flexibility for precise skilled jobs, rather than resorting to rigidity and tension for control.

Two lectures will underpin the practical lessons and will provide the theoretical and anatomical basis of the work.

Topics

• Retraining of the body to be aligned for better posture
• Learning improved flexible but strong trunk support for working when seated
• Knowing how to sit and adjust posture while using Loupes and Microscope
• How to avoid work injuries and to help with rehabilitation should injury occur
• Learning how to release tight muscles and tone wasted weak muscles
• Learning an ongoing program of maintenance
• Risk management – how to avoid work injuries and how to help with rehabilitation should injury occur