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Age 41-60
Interview CP36  

Interview CP36

Age at Interview: 42
Sex: Female
Background: Pensions administrator; married; 2 children.
Brief outline:Back pain since 1989 (in remission at time of interview). Treatment: Physiotherapy, ultrasound, mobilisation. Pain management: Outpatient NHS Pain management programme. Current medication: None. Past medication: ibuprofen, co-proxamol, diazepam.


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Requested a desk assessment at her workplace and says that the equipment provided by her work is very good.

 



The office that I work in are actually very good at thinking about employee sort of health and safety issues etc... and you can request, which I did, a desk assessment to see whether your chair is adjusted properly, or you need a foot rest or anything, any other pieces of equipment. A couple of things were supplied, not particularly in relation to my back.  

The chairs are adequate, in fact they're very good and I'm again very fortunate in that the job that I have I am not sitting for sort of the full 5 hours that I work each day. I'm sort of constantly at my desk, up to get something, back at my desk, up to see so and so, back at my desk.  

So, the fact that I have that kind of just natural freedom to get up and move about, it's not something that I have to sort of excuse myself from my desk when I stretch my legs. Just, it's a natural break in the work that I have that allows me to keep jumping up and down like that. So it's not something that I need to explain to my colleagues “I need to get up every now and again otherwise I become really stiff”. It's part of my job, so it goes unnoticed the fact that I'm doing this.  
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