Tag: ergonomics
-
One of the common complaints I see in my office is that of hip pains, which come in two varieties
-
Knee pains are becoming very common. Most of the orthopedic surgeons in professional football and hockey are specialists in the knee, leaving others to look after the rest of the bones in question.
-
We don’t get injuries from “hunting and gathering” in the field, we get them from “hunting and pecking” at a keyboard.
-
One complaint that is becoming more common is the tennis elbow. More correctly, we should call it the “Non-Tennis Elbow”. Far more people sit at keyboards than swing racquets, and these are the ones we are seeing in epidemic proportions.
-
One of the more common complaints I see in my office is carpal tunnel syndrome. It is now becoming more common in office workers and students who type or text for protracted periods.
-
Back pain has become more common in the computer age than it was in the agricultural age. This may appear puzzling, because we are no longer working the land, we are now working the hand. Or at least both hands, at a keyboard.