Why shearers and rural workers should be treated like athletes - Laura Hancock

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Dom talks with Laura Hancock from Rural Works about her role as a movement educator and wellbeing specialist helping shearers and woolclassers with injury prevention, the concept of the Rural Athlete® and her 2023 Kellogg report looking at muscular skeletal health. They also discuss her role in co-founding WomoLife, being a masseuse for world record shearing attempts and her new role working for Devold. Tune in daily for the latest and greatest REX rural content on your favourite streaming platform, visit rexonline.co.nz and follow us on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn for more.

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