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The 3-Stage Approach:

Stage 1
Bio-Ergonomics Analysis
The BEAT instructor observes individual at work station.  Together they explore individual movement patterns and evaluate the efficiency of these patterns.  Instructor explains how harmful patterns can be changed.

Stage 2 
Retraining Work Habits
With the instructor's help, using hands-on and verbal teaching, participants learn efficient ways of sitting and standing, walking,bending, using  arms and hands, etc.

Stage 3
Application to Specific Workplace Activities.
Again with the instructor's close personal assistance, participants practice improved coordination while at their jobs ? working at the computer or telephone, writing and reading at their desks; bending, lifting, carrying, working with tools; or just simply breathing and speaking.

What can the BEAT training do in your workplace?

• Retrain personnel without expensive ergonomic equipment
  
  
• Help employees to make the best of existing work conditions
  
  
• Develop good coordination in all workplace activities, particularly for computer and telephone users
  
  
• Alter postural behaviors which predispose us to a wide range of repetitive stress injuries, e.g. back, neck, and shoulder pain, wrist and hand pain, sciatica
  
  
• Build strength and correct body mechanics for sitting, standing, and moving efficiently all day long
  
  
• Promote confidence and poise