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Laptop Battery When you are experiencing neck and shoulder pain at your computer, there are simple actions you can take to help you feel better.
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Thinkpad It is very important to understand how your body reacts with the design of your computer work area. Of equal concern is choosing products to help you rather than create additional pain. It can be just as simple as adjusting or rearranging your equipment and furniture.
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Monitor Height Placement
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Laptop Computers If you bend your neck back to see the monitor, it is too high. If you bend your neck down, your monitor is too low.
Cigarettes have warning labels, "using this laptop computer may be harmful to your health." Laptops can hurt you. They generate enough heat to burn. Their keyboards cause hands and shoulders to ache. Screens tilted at an awkward angle or positioned too far away cause eye strain. Your laptop can literally become a pain in the neck. Fortunately, minimizing these dangers is easy and inexpensive.
Laptop Computer Let your head rest naturally and it will tilt slightly forward. You have left the office too many times with sore muscles!
- Women report having chronic pain more frequently than men ( Cejiku M et al 2004).
- Asian Americans report migraine, neck pain, or back pain less frequently than whites, African Americans, American Indians, or Alaskan Natives ( Cejiku M et al 2004).
- Studies show that effective acute pain relief helps reduce hospital stays, promotes recovery, and reduces the risk of developing chronic pain (Carli F et al 2002; Linton SJ et al 1993).
- Undertreatment of pain is a major, worldwide problem (Lander J 1990; Martin R et al 2005).
Desktop Computer When looking straight ahead, your line of sight is the imaginary horizontal line from your eyes to the screen. Your eyes naturally gaze down 15 - 20 degrees below your line of sight. Adjust the height to easily view the information on the screen where your eyes naturally gaze.
Notebooks
Center Keyboard with Monitor
Lenovo If your keyboard is placed directly in front of your body and your monitor is situated to the right or left you will be forced to twist your neck to view the screen. Ouch! This twist will tense the muscles in your neck.
Hard Drive The longer you work with your muscles tensed the higher risk of developing neck and shoulder pain.
Travelstar
Adjust Your Chair Armrest Height
Gateway How often do you feel as if your neck is almost touching your shoulder? Too often, right!
Laptop Parts Let's not make it easy to tense your shoulders. If your armrests are too high, you will be raising (and tensing!) your shoulders up and creating pain.
Software Due to the tendency to lean to the side with armrests too low you may also create pain in the elbows and ulnar nerve. The ulnar nerve is the one you feel all the way down into your pinkie finger when hitting your elbow. Watch this one!
Hard Drives Adjust your armrests so that your shoulders are completely relaxed and elbows rest comfortably on armrests.
Electronics
Eliminate Your Chair Armrests Altogether
Canon Do your armrests prevent you from getting close to your keyboard because they hit the edge of your desk? This is a source of mental stress many of us have experienced.
Desktop Pc You will also create tense neck and shoulder muscles due to the straight arm reach to the keyboard and mouse.
Desktop Computers So in this case, remove the armrests.
Think Pad
Move Mouse Closer To Your Body
Repair Moving and clicking your mouse frequently when it is too far away can create shoulder pain - use a shorter footprint, ergonomic keyboard without the right hand numeric keypad or a mouse that is placed at the center of the body.
Data Recovery You may also try a keyboard with the numeric keypad on the left, your keyboard and monitor will be balanced more easily.
Cisco As always, REST, REST and MORE REST every 10 minutes for 10 seconds and every hour for five (5) minutes.
Keyboard Stand up and stretch often as this will relax your mind and body, improve circulation and create more productivity.
Monitor Go Live in Comfort!
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Infosys Wendy Young, a Certified Ergonomic Expert and founder of http://www.ergopro.com has helped thousands of people reduce pain from their computer work since 1991. She offers a free newsletter on increasing comfort and reducing pain in the workplace at http://www.ergonomics-safety.com .
