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If you are in your twenties and healthy, please learn from my mistakes. I suffered from wrist pain and lower back pain. I used all sorts of ergonomic keyboard
by delackner 14y ago
If you are in your twenties and healthy, please learn from my mistakes. I suffered from wrist pain and lower back pain. I used all sorts of ergonomic keyboards, chairs, even a special back brace. Eventually I was seeing a chiropractor and massage therapist once a week. None of that worked, because I spent all my time sitting in a chair staring at a computer.
I started weight training and yoga, and my wrist and back pain disappeared. I thought I was done and everything was fine.
But I was still sitting in a chair all day every day, and more than a decade like that herniated a disc in my neck. The initial symptoms were a persistent pain in my upper shoulder blade for months. The doctor said this would not have happened if I had just got up once an hour, and he sees tons of desk workers end up the same.
Since then I have seen some improvement by using a program to force me to look away from the screen at intervals, and to get up once an hour.
My posture is still horrible, but now the remaining struggle is simply staying aware enough to avoid bad habits (slouching, letting my head fall forward, etc).
- stevenwei 14y agoThanks for sharing. This type of situation is what concerns me. Even with regular exercise (lifting/running/yoga), I'm worried that the overall amount of time spent sitting every day will lead to adverse consequences in 20 years. When I first came across the idea of treadmill desks I thought they were rather silly, but now I'm seriously considering getting one. They aren't cheap though (unless you do a hacky DIY job).