Home Treatment for Repetitive Stress Injury

If you’re longing for a laptop and thinking about getting the cheap mini-notebooks like the EEE PC instead (retailing around $300), think again. The price tag is sweeter, but the mini-computers cost less because they can’t do as much for you as a full size desktop or laptop. Instead, mini-computers fill a niche between a [...]

Are you careful with your ergonomic set up even while you’re on the go? On Smartphones, laptops, and other devices, it’s harder to make sure your posture is correct, and that you’re doing things the ergonomic way. According to BT, a UK-based company providing IT networking services, 54% of managers believe that mobile workers have [...]

There are lots of software programs out there to help make typing and mousing quicker and easier — and that means less clicks to make your wrists and fingers twinge with overuse pain. Gmail Labs recently opened up some new apps for Gmail that can make navigation a bit quicker and easier, like the following: [...]

I once read an account of the peace negotiations following the Second World War-secretaries stayed up all night, painstakingly typing and retyping official documents. Since this was before the computer era, they used typewriters, and had to retype any page where edits or errors were made. On reading the historical accounts, my wrists twinged and [...]

Which of these injuries is different? Ankle sprains, broken legs, and carpal tunnel syndrome all cause swelling and pain and need to be immobilized at times. But the chronic pain syndromes like Carpal Tunnel behave very differently than acute injuries like an ankle sprain or broken bone. A recent write-up in the Posture Blog describes [...]

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Any time I feel tense and sore from typing all day, from now on I’m going to step back and stretch and just be thankful I don’t spend the entire day squatting and assembling cars. Auto-maker Honda has recently finished a ten-year project developing a robotic, battery-operated machine that will assist its workers in walking, [...]

If you’re stressed and sick of your job and ready for a way out, you might be considering what your aptitudes and interests are for other careers. In this economy, now is a tough time to ditch your job for a new one though — or is it? Some fields –especially nursing and teaching — [...]

One of the key issues in ergonomics is that one size never fits all. The petite, five foot tall woman (that’s me) has vastly different needs than the broad-shouldered 6’5″ man. We have different sizes, weights, different abilities to grasp, different shapes and spaces between our fingers and our shoulders. But most product manufacturers don’t [...]

Many old farts, some of them esteemed writers, have warned against the doomsday arrival of the Internet and associated technological advances. Despite the pessimistic forecast of writers like Doris Lessing, the 2007 Nobel prize winner for Literature, who warned against the “inanities” of the Internet (and blogging in particular) — the world isn’t going to [...]