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Treadmill work stations reduce muscle pain

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Toronto: Treadmill work stations can make office work a lot more comfortable as they can help reduce neck and shoulder muscle pain associated with computer work, says a new study.

“Even though office workers may not naturally see it that way, their body is basically their work instrument, just as it is for an athlete,” said one of the researchers Julie Cote from McGill University in Canada.

“It can get injured in similar ways and for similar reasons: overuse of certain muscles,” Cote said.

Typing while walking can reduce muscle activity in the neck and shoulder, showed the findings published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology.

For the study, the researchers asked participants to complete a 90-minute typing task while walking or sitting, while they measured muscle activity in the neck, shoulders, forearms, wrists and lower back.

The researchers discovered that there was lower but more variable neck and shoulder muscle activity when participants were walking compared with sitting, all of which translates into less discomfort.

Researchers have estimated that muscular and skeletal stresses and pains would affect one in ten office workers at some point in their careers.

“Whether you are a computer worker or a middle-distance runner, injuries happen when you tense a particular muscle or group of muscles for too long, and the blood cannot flow into the region as it should and regenerate the muscles,” Cote said.

“Bodies are made to move,” she said.

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Covid toll in Karnataka is a worrying sign for state government

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Even though Karnataka recorded the lowest number of Covid deaths in April since the virus struck first in 2020, the state is recording a rise in the positivity rate (1.50 per cent). Five people died from the Covid infections in April as per the statistics released by the state health department. In March, the positivity rate stood around 0.53 per cent. In the first week of April it came down to 0.38 per cent, second week registered 0.56 per cent, third week it rose to 0.79 per cent and by end of April the Covid positivity rate touched 1.19 per cent.

on an average 500 persons used to succumb everyday in the peak of Covid infection, as per the data. Health experts said that the mutated Coronavirus is losing its fierce characteristics as vaccination, better treatment facilities and awareness among the people have contributed to the lesser number of Covid deaths.

During the 4th and 6th of April two deaths were reported in Bengaluru, one in Gadag district on April 8, two deaths were reported from Belagavi and Vijayapura on April 30. The first Covid case was reported in the state in March 2020 and three Covid deaths were recorded in the month. In the following month 21 people became victims to the deadly virus, and May 2020 recorded 22 deaths. The death toll recorded everyday after May crossed three digits. However, the third wave, which started in January 2

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