Feel Better at Work

July 7th, 2010

• If possible, set up a standing work station to minimize the physical strains that sitting puts on your back and neck.  If you can’t stand consider an exercise ball as a chair, which keeps you moving and balancing all day instead of sitting stagnantly.
• Set the top of your computer monitor just above eye level, about an arm’s length away.
• Set up a document arm on each side of your monitor so that you can equalize the side you look to, as well has keep your head in a neutral posture eliminating the strains of hanging the head forward and to one side.
• Tilt your keyboard away, not toward you – angling it toward you bends your wrists back leading to carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis.