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Being a stylist can be incredibly rewarding. Working your magic on your client’s hair and seeing their happy faces when you turn their chair around and they see their new look can be a wonderful feeling. However, being a stylist comes with its own challenges. Hair stylists are more likely to suffer from repetitive strain injuries than people in most other professions due to the positions of their arms and hands throughout their processes and the tools they use to work their magic. Carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis are two particularly nasty conditions that can result from repetitive motion and strain.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is one of the most common hand conditions according to the Mayo Clinic. The condition is caused by pressure on the median nerve in the carpal tunnel of the wrist and is often characterized by numbness, tingling, and weakness in the thumb and fingers. Proper treatment of the wrist can help to relieve tingling and numbness and restore hand function.
Tendonitis is inflammation of the fibrous cords that attach muscles to bone, and causes pain and tenderness just outside of a joint. The condition is most common around shoulders, elbows, wrists, knees, and heels, so proper posture and safe practices are necessary to avoid it. Most tendonitis can be treated with rest, physical therapy, or medications to reduce pain.
ERGO has adopted an innovative approach to creating their styling tools with your overall health and productivity in mind. Rather than replicating the designs of other manufacturers, ERGO traveled into thousands of hair salons to observe stylist and how they work. This allowed them to ask questions and helped them to develop new styling tools that are ergonomic and safer to use with less risk of injury while also allowing you to work more quickly with less fatigue.
