Pain Relief from Neck and Shoulder Pain My Top 5 Favorite Ways
Copyright 2006 Wendy Young
When you are experiencing neck and shoulder pain at your computer, there are simple actions you can take to help you feel better.
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.
Monitor Height Placement
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.
Let your head rest naturally and it will tilt slightly forward. You have left the office too many times with sore muscles!
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.
Center Keyboard with Monitor
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.
The longer you work with your muscles tensed the higher risk of developing neck and shoulder pain.
Adjust Your Chair Armrest Height
How often do you feel as if your neck is almost touching your shoulder? Too often, right!
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.
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.
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Adjust your armrests so that your shoulders are completely relaxed and elbows rest comfortably on armrests.
Eliminate Your Chair Armrests Altogether
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.
You will also create tense neck and shoulder muscles due to the straight arm reach to the keyboard and mouse.
So in this case, remove the armrests.
Move Mouse Closer To Your Body
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.
You may also try a keyboard with the numeric keypad on the left, your keyboard and monitor will be balanced more easily.
As always, REST, REST and MORE REST every 10 minutes for 10 seconds and every hour for five (5) minutes.
Stand up and stretch often as this will relax your mind and body, improve circulation and create more productivity.
Go Live in Comfort
Ergonomics for Pain Free Computing Six (6) Simple Tips
Copyright 2006 Wendy Young
Ergonomics is the science of creating a workspace that fits your body and is safe and comfortable. Since so many people work at home these days either full or part time it is important to know what to do.
These six (6) do-it-yourself ergo-ideas will help you prevent pain at the computer, such as carpal tunnel syndrome and neck and shoulder strain.
Back Against Backrest
Position your sacrum (the lower portion of your back) firmly against the backrest. This will naturally align your spine, helping you retain the S-curve.
Adjust your chair so that your torso and thighs are in the 95 to 120 degree angle range.
This open posture position helps circulation throughout your body. Place your feet flat on the floor or on a footrest. Do not leave then dangling or resting on the bottom of your chair.
Adjust Keyboard Up or Down and Straight
When you type and mouse, place your elbows...
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Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint, Outlook, Frontpage, & Publisher For Office 2003 - New Quick-Reference Guides From Permacharts
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2003 At long last, it's finally here - and we are ready. Office 2003 titles are the latest editions to our suite of desktop Microsoft products. Whether you are a student or scientist, a businessperson or educator, we have a chart to accompany Office 2003's most popular applications. Word, Excel, PowerPoint make up the core trio. Rounding up our release are Access, FrontPage, Publisher, and Outlook.
Each title is available individually, or in bulk. Permacharts has released the following Office 2003 titles:Word 2003 (ISBN: 1-55080-901-6) Retail: $3.95 U.S./$5.35 CDNThe word is - Word! This handy reference chart covers everything you need to get started with the 2003 edition of this universal word processing program from Microsoft. Includes the latest information on toolbars, tables, text, task panes, files graphics, envelopes, and labels. Learn how to work with macros, proofing tools, margins, tabs, spacing, footnotes, endnotes, view pages, and create Web pages...
Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint, Outlook, Frontpage, & Publisher For Office 2003 - New Quick-Reference Guides From Permacharts
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Tritone: Expands K-12 Music Educational Offering
Burnaby, BC (ContentDesk) June 23, 2006 -- Today Tritonemusic.com released its new web site, www.tritonemusic.com and phase one of "Tritone Music Academy" (TMA) in time for the 2006 school year. "Pop Keyboard Course" is the initial introduction and will be followed shortly by our "Junior Music Course"; both are a result of extensive research and development that spans over 20 years.Tritone is now responding to an increased demand from schools and districts by addressing an important need in contemporary music education. After many years of success in the commercial education field, and 3 revised editions ensuring the highest of standards, Tritone courses are now available for general use. These courses have certainly proven their worthiness and have demonstrated a long lasting popularity that is unique in the world of keyboard courses.Great West Music / Tritone began work on the project with the goal being to design innovative...
Tritone: Expands K-12 Music Educational Offering
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Home Office Tip Part 2...Computer Health Hazards.
Home office stress related injuries are escalating. Along with carpal tunnel syndrome, eye strains, neck strains, back related problems.
Let's face it, if you are behind the keys more than a few hours a week you will suffer one or more of the above problems.
- Neck Strains.Have you noticed that your neck is stiff after a long day at the computer?
Well, the trouble might be your monitor height. Your monitor should be eye level so you will not have to constantly lower, raise, and crook your neck to view the screen. Exercise Tip:Try rotating your your shoulders back several times and then forward for several more times to reduce stress.Then slowly turn your head side to side several times.
- Carpal Tunnel SyndromeAlso called repetitive motion injury is on the increase. Why? Because of the new technology, computers are faster than ever. This leads to more keystrokes which equals more injuries. That numbness in your wrist or hands might be a warning that you...
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Computer Lab International (CLI) Expands Its’ High-Performance – ET4500 Series of Thin Clients
Placentia, CA (ContentDesk) March 16, 2006 -- Computer Lab International, Inc. (CLI), a leading provider of thin client and text terminal products introduces three additional thin client products to further strengthen the ET4500 series- the ET4510x, ET4520x and the ET4520g. The ET4510x flexible, high-performance Microsoft Windows XP Embedded thin client includes a PCI expansion slot that can be used for a wide variety of add-ons, such as: video cards for multi-headed and high resolution graphics, DVI, external media cards, and communications/NICs such as 1GB Ethernet and broadband.The new ET4520x flexible, high-performance Windows XP Embedded thin client includes a PCMCIA expansion slot.
This slot is designed for various PC card expansion options such as with memory cards, modem cards, and network cards.And the new ET4520g, powerful Windows CE thin client includes a PCMCIA expansion slot, for more computing options.As with all of the thin clients in the ET4500 series, these...
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