Home Treatment for Repetitive Stress Injury

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 — [...]

Back when I was seriously suffering from RSI, I spent time dreaming about what a safe, happy and healthy workstation would look like and came up with an entirely new sort of workstation. My story is this: I had some pain in college, but my friends at the time were wonderful massage-a-holics and helped rub [...]

Today’s topic is brought to you by the second giant gas tanker melt down in the East Bay Area in two years. Around 6 am this morning, an Acura crashed into a gas tanker carrying 8,600 gallons of gas on South Interstate 880 in downtown Oakland, right near an area so tangled with freeways it’s [...]

Recently I reviewed my kneeling chair and how it helps my back. Since I got mine at a thrift store, I didn’t do any comparison research before choosing mine. So I decided to put in some research on the variety of kneel chairs available on the market. If you’re looking for a kneeling chair, consider [...]

I got my kneel chair at a thrift store for 10 bucks, and it’s one of my favorite places to sit. Kneeling chairs adjust your position to be more natural on the spine than regular chairs and provide a unique ergonomic relief for the back and hips. Rather than put all your weight on your [...]

Laptops are great tools for business users and students on the go, but they’re from an ergonomic standpoint they’re badly designed. They lead us to hunch over, push our necks forward and squint at the screen till we look a little too much like Quasimodo… but there are solutions! One is to use a notebook [...]

Having come of age in Santa Cruz, California, a little hippie haven on the coast, I’m a bit skeptical of large business chains like Starbucks that tend to set up shop on every other street corner, sometimes pushing smaller operations out of business. Yet, I have to admit that they know what they’re doing — [...]

I’ve worked for start-ups, mid-sized and large organizations with vastly different corporate cultures, financial resources and approaches to ergonomic workstation setup. In my experience, larger organizations tend to have more resources in place and are more willing to purchase ergonomic equipment. This might lead you to believe that ergonomically speaking, it’s better to work for [...]

I spent Saturday at the Maker Faire in San Mateo, and found some cool related tutorials for modifying your own computer input devices like mice and scroll wheels. Some of them don’t require much electronics savvy, while others are serious mods that need a few tools and some background. Either way, they’re fun to browse [...]