1) Check the the height of your desk & your chair - your forearms should be almost exactly horizontal when you type. 2) Check the height of your monitor. When your arms are in a typing position, you should be able to get a good view of the monitor by looking straight forwards. If you can't, then pile stuff under your monitor until you're at least close to being able to do this. Having this one wrong is particularly good at screwing up your neck and shoulders. 3) If your office chair has arms, think about what they actually do. Usually they just get in the way of your arms, stopping you from being able to drop your upper arms to a relaxed position (vertical, at your sides. If they can't do this then your shoulder muscles will be working overime to stop your elbows banging on the arms of the chair all the time. best bet? Take the arms of the chair. You're probably not using them anyway, they're only really there to make the chair look more expensive.
Lessons originally learned in ergonomics/anthropometrcs classes at uni. Lessons re-iterated in the srongest manner by several months of RSI hell.
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Date: 2003-05-30 00:40 (UTC)1) Check the the height of your desk & your chair - your forearms should be almost exactly horizontal when you type.
2) Check the height of your monitor. When your arms are in a typing position, you should be able to get a good view of the monitor by looking straight forwards. If you can't, then pile stuff under your monitor until you're at least close to being able to do this. Having this one wrong is particularly good at screwing up your neck and shoulders.
3) If your office chair has arms, think about what they actually do. Usually they just get in the way of your arms, stopping you from being able to drop your upper arms to a relaxed position (vertical, at your sides. If they can't do this then your shoulder muscles will be working overime to stop your elbows banging on the arms of the chair all the time. best bet? Take the arms of the chair. You're probably not using them anyway, they're only really there to make the chair look more expensive.
Lessons originally learned in ergonomics/anthropometrcs classes at uni. Lessons re-iterated in the srongest manner by several months of RSI hell.