The Challenge – Notebooks!
Every office has a range of commonly used work tools that challenge even the best office ergonomic checklist. Notebooks and the need to write and refer to notes is one such challenge. A Problem Causing Pain Notebooks are commonly placed to the...
Simple Behavours to Protect Yourself from Computer Neck Pain & Headaches
How often do you get headaches and neck pain after working with screens? Imagine the effect on your business when that happens to most of your staff! Pain has been associated with increased absenteeism, presenteeism, and staff turnover, and decreased productivity and...
Take Action to Prevent Headaches @ Work!
We use screens almost continuously at work and at home. We also spend a lot of time looking down at phones or tablets. This means we also hold static, tense and awkward postures for long periods. It’s not surprising we get headaches using computers, especially tension...
The Car Seat, Not An Office Chair Maybe Causing Back Pain
Good assessments look beyond the workstation for the causes of pain During our one-on-one intensives, in addition to the usual range of questions, (e.g. what screens are used at home, what advice has your physio provided etc), we always ask, “When else do you find you...
Rescuing Cinderella
Learning to care for Cinderella is crucial for any screen user (so, everyone!). The Cinderella hypothesis aims to explain the link between low-level muscular activation to an elevated risk of developing chronic pain, including chronic pain now commonly experienced...
Are They Working
Are Sit-Stand Workstations Working? What do you think? Have you already given up on your Sit-Stand workstation? I hear an increasing number are being put into storage! My Questions Retrofit fit stations increase the height and depth of the work surface. Does this mean...
This Posture Causes Pain
It’s happened again! Someone providing office workstation assessment using the old standard illustration as a posture guide This drives me crazy! This old illustration from the Australian standards is NOT a posture guide This illustration is for the manufactures…and...
Office Ergonomics is Meant to Reduce Pain!
This is what drives me! I just got off this call… A young man trying to find the right help. Trying to find a solution to his chronic pain because the endless physio appointments and trips to the doctors where not helping. After suffering from RSI for 8 to 9...