But if that's not possible, occupational therapist Julie Belkin advises motorists to follow her shoveling regimen: Always use insulated gloves, shovel small areas every few hours, and keep medication handy.
Shovelers also need to utilize a stop-and-go system of digging as early in a storm as possible.
"The biggest challenge in anything like shoveling, you've got 20 or 30 pounds of snow at the end of a long (shovel)," said Belkin, founder and president of the Stevensville-based...
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