<p><span style="font-size: 16px;text-align: justify;float: none;">Manual handling activities have multiple scenarios, but the obvious </span><strong style="font-size: 16px;text-align: justify;">manual handling scenario</strong><span style="font-size: 16px;text-align: justify;float: none;"> is the common occurrence of lifting a pen off the ground. Now, an adult head weighs 5-7 kg, so when it comes to the manual handling of a pen from off the ground from a standing posture, you are not simply lifting a pen up, your lift your head as well. This is possibly the most overlooked regular scenario in our daily lives, with serious</span><strong style="font-size: 16px;text-align: justify;"> health and safety implications</strong><span style="font-size: 16px;text-align: justify;float: none;"> as we grow older. The vertebrates &amp; spine are finely adjusted; suited for standing posture, and walking. The vertebrate disks open up sufficiently to allow back movement activities such as </span><strong style="font-size: 16px;text-align: justify;">manual handling exercises</strong><span style="font-size: 16px;text-align: justify;float: none;">, but this leaves us open to back ergonomic health and safety issues in the case of top heavy loads.</span><!--EndFragment--><br/><br/><br/></p>