SAFE MOVES FOR GARDENERS
Get rid of back, shoulder & neck pain for good.
Our Safe Moves for Gardeners eBook is designed specifically to address the common causes of injuries for gardeners.
Learn how to prevent pain and ongoing injuries associated with gardening and outdoor tasks to do around the home.
Are you experiencing back, neck or shoulder pain?
It is common for gardeners to experience pain caused by heavy or repetitive movements. Activities such as:
Picking up and carrying fertilizer bags
Bending over to do planting and weeding
Pushing, pulling, and twisting while using tools like shovels, rakes, and hedge trimmers
Physiotherapy and other rehabilitation focused practices may help to alleviate the pain temporarily, but often the injury is reoccurring unless you learn healthy movement practices.
Addresses pain at its root cause and prevent injuries.
Safe Movement for Gardeners teaches foundational movement principles based on the movements of Physically Intelligent individuals.
We have spent over a decade studying the movements of the uninjured person compared to a person that experiences common strain and sprain injuries.
In our Safe Movement for Gardeners resources, you will learn these principles and build habits that will change your movements and prevent regular strain and sprain injuries. The movements you will learn are specifically related to those common in gardening and backyard activities, but the principles apply to all areas of your life, including in your workplace or other activities that involve lifting and bending.
Download the eBook
We’ve put together this eBook to teach you the simple principles of safe movement and how they apply to common gardening activities
From lifting heavy bags of fertiliser and compost, to bending over to pick out weeds, we’ve got you covered!
The Safe Moves for Gardeners eBook covers:
How to move with balance when bending and reach and eliminate back pain and injury.
How to move to avoid twisting related injuries, such as back, knee and shoulder injuries
How to grip correctly to avoid wrist, elbow and arm pain.
How to use your hands to increase your power when pushing, pulling and carrying.
How to lift effectively to use the power of your legs and avoid back strain.
All this in an easy to read form for just NZ$6.99. Downloadable immediately after purchase.
Online Learning Programme - Coming Soon!
Delivered as video tutorials to clearly demonstrate correct and incorrect movements
Practical movements that make sense so you can start to build new movement habits immediately
Interactive learning opportunities and self assessments so you know you are on the right track
Testimonials
“I used to always get back pain when I was using the weed eater for any length of time. I now know why - and how to avoid it. Such a simple change has made a big difference to my physical comfort”
“I have just had shoulder surgery – and the thumbs up for power principle has helped me gardening as well as in other aspects of my life”
“I love the garden but have always been plagued by back pain when I am bending down
for any length of time. Since understanding how to move and bend with balance I no
longer get back pain. Wish I had learnt this years ago!”
“Who would have thought that breathing out would make such a big difference to my ability to lift and move heavy things. Thank you Provention for sharing these simple tips.”
Why Safe Moves For Gardening
Provention has been providing manual handling and safe movement programmes to NZ and Australian organisations for the past 15 years.
Our core First Move programmes give individuals the skills to be physically intelligent and perform their day-to-day physical activities safely. The result being a reduction in strain-sprain related injuries and associated personal and company costs.
While conducting the First Move training within workplaces, we repeatedly got feedback on how practical and beneficial this information was for all the physical activities required of a ‘gardener’. Activities such as lifting bags of fertiliser, weeding, shovelling, trimming hedges, watering plants, trimming hedges, the list goes on.
So we launched Safe Moves for Gardeners as a consumer injury prevention resource.
Learn more about the Provention team here.
