Home physiotherapy in Goregaon for shoulder and neck pain — Film City call sheets, Nesco standing days and the fourteen-hour edit

Goregaon East contains both the Film City studios towards the Aarey end and the office belt around Nesco, Oberoi Commerz and the Western Express Highway towers. The people who live and work across that belt bring me shoulder and neck pain in roughly equal volume, but the mechanism is almost opposite, and the treatment differs accordingly.

The production side is a load problem. A camera assistant carries a rig on one shoulder for a fourteen-hour call. A light technician spends the morning rigging overhead on a ladder with the arms above shoulder height. A hair and makeup artist stands with both arms elevated at somebody's head height for three continuous hours, then repeats it after lunch. A spot or production assistant carries and lifts all day. These are physically demanding jobs with no scheduled recovery, and the shoulder complaints that come out of them are genuine overload injuries.

The office side is the reverse: not too much load, but none at all, held for too long. Editors, VFX artists, post-production supervisors and the general Goregaon East desk population sit for twelve to fourteen hours with the arms unsupported in front, the shoulder blades drifting forward and the upper trapezius doing a low-grade hold all day. Different cause, similar symptom map — the base of the neck, the top of the shoulder, and a nagging point between the shoulder blade and the spine.