Your physical presentation

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Chapter 3

• Your physical presentation

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Your physical presentation

• Is made up of your posture, walk, movements. In
  enhances or detracts from your attractiveness and
  is important to your wellbeing
• Unhealthy or defective body postures can cause a
  number of physical problems, particularly when
  poor posture becomes a habit

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Posture

• Shows off figure
• Can convey image of
  confidence
• Can prevent fatigue
• Can prevent other physical problems

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Posture

• Guidelines
• Keep head up and chin
  level with floor
• Keep neck
  elongated and balanced directly
  above shoulders
• Keep chest out and up, with
  body lifted from breastbone
• Keep shoulders level, held back and down, yet
  relaxed

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Posture

• Keep spine straight, not curved laterally or
  swayed from front to back
• Keep abdomen flat
• Keep hips level horizontally dont let them
  protrude forward or back
• Keep knees slightly flexed, not locked and
  positioned over feet

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Posture

• Correct sitting posture
• Use thigh muscles and support from hands and arms
  to lower body into a chair
• Keep back straight while lowering body
• Do no bend at waist or reach with buttocks
• When seated, slide to back of chair by placing
  both hands at front edge of chair at sides and
  raising body slightly while sliding back
• Dont wiggle or inch back

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Sitting

• When giving a manicure, sit with lower back
  against chair, leaning slightly forward. If stool
  is used, use entire stool. Keep chest up and rest
  your body weight on full length of your thighs
• Sitting position
• Keep back straight
• Keep soles of feet on floor
• Dont cross legs or feet at ankles
• Dont bend forward from waist or stoop forward
  from shoulders. Bend from hips or sit on chair or
  wedge-shaped cushion that tilts forward

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Care of feet

• Our feet will carry us about 115,000 miles in our
  lifetime. Dont you think we should take good
  care of them? The fact is that we dont usually
  pay much attention to them until they are killing
  us

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The Human Foot

• 26 bones
• 20 muscles
• 114 ligaments
• Its composition alone provides for many potential
  foot problems
• Proper foot care will help maintain good posture
  and a cheerful attitude
• Its nearly impossible to be joyful when your
  feet are aching

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Shoes

• Avoid high heels
• Narrow or clunky both apply pressure to the
  knees they throw off your center of gravity,
  creating or aggravating a variety of
  musculoskeletal problems, including back and knee
  pain and arthritis
• Wear low heeled,wider shoes
• This spreads the shock absorption on the foot and
  gives the toes more room

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Shoes feet

• Carpeted or cushioned surfaces are helpful
• They alleviate stress and reduce fatigue
• Daily foot care
• Exercise and massage
• Massage with oil or lotion for a few min. before
  showering. After shower, dry thoroughly and apply
  antiseptic foot lotion or natural foot powder.
  Massage feet with moisturizing lotion before
  going to bet at night and then slip on cotton
  socks to preserve the moisturizing effect

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Feet

• Well-fitted shoes
• Regular pedicures
• Elevate feet during day
• This gives the vascular system in the legs a
  much-needed rest and helps prevent varicose veins

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Ergonomics

• Definition
• An applied science concerned with designing and
  arranging things people use so that the people
  and things interact most efficiently and safely
  
• Websters
• The study of human characteristics for the
  specific work environment. Ergonomics attempts to
  fit the job to the person, and sometimes
  includes human factors engineering. Safety and
  Health in the Salon by Dennis Nelson

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Ergonomics

• Repetitive work practices
• Causes back, arm, shoulder, wrist, and hand
  problems
• Back pain and carpal tunnel syndrome
• Considered the most common, most expensive, and
  most preventable type of workplace injuries by
  OSHA ( Occupational Safety and Health
  Administration )

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Ergonomics

• 1.8 million workers experience MSDS
• MSDS are muscle, bone, and joint disorders that
  OSHA calls musculoskeletal disorders. About 1/3
  of those injuries require time off work. Because
  of the lengthy recovery time, ergonomic-related
  injuries account for a large portion of all
  workers compensation costs

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Ergonomics

• Repetitive trauma disorders
• Repetitive motion involving the forearm, wrist
  and fingers often causes an injury called carpal
  tunnel syndrome (CTS). Manipulation of scissors,
  combs, brushes and hair dryers produces the kind
  of repetitive trauma disorders that lead to CTS.

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Ergonomics

• Recognition of problem job factors
• Work surfaces that are too high, too low, or to
  far away
• Range of motion and force required
• Maintaining same position or awkward posture
  while performing tasks
• Performing same motion over and over again
• Constant motion without short pauses or breaks in
  between

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Ergonomics

• Tasks that require long horizontal reaches with
  heavy loads and/or static or awkward postures
• Vertical reach below knees or above shoulders
• Sitting for a long time with static or awkward
  postures
• Working with hands too far from body
• Bending wrist with fingers toward palm when
  filing or buffing nails

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Ergonomics

• Prevention is the key
• We must take steps to fit our work with our body
  rather than our body to our work. Controls may
  involve limited standing and bending time, taking
  frequent sitting, walking and stretching breaks
  in between clients
• Maintain upright posture with elbows low and
  close to body
• Correct stance and chair position
• This position will change for different types of
  services

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Ergonomics

• Holding scissors so that wrist is in relatively
  neutral position
• Correct client and cosmetologist body potion for
  facial
• Frequent stretching

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Summary

• Your professional image is yours to create and
  define. Once youve identified the image you most
  want to project and have taken the steps to take
  ownership of it, your professional life will grow
  and flourish. We have established that our
  professional image is comprised of much more than
  our outer appearance. It is affected by our
  attitude, our voice, our smile, our outlook on
  life, our inner health and well-being, and so
  much more.

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Summary

• We must maintain our good health to work
  efficiently, especially in the field of
  cosmetology, and also to enjoy life. Therefore, a
  healthy regimen of rest, exercise, relaxation,
  nutrition and personal hygiene and grooming is
  essential. Remember, the good habits and
  practices you develop while in school will lay
  the foundation for a successful career