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> Make sure [the mouse is] wireless. I disagree there — wireless mice & keyboards are terribly insecure. Other than that, seems like some good advice here.
Ergonomics and security are different concerns; the best mechanism for addressing one, considered on its own, may be suboptimal from the perspective of the other.
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My wife weights 43kg and she has pretty bad posture. She is developing a hunch at 35! In my limited knowledge, its because of weak muscles all over. She's been skinny all her life. I'm looking in to what exercises she can do to get better.
It's worth checking her thyroid function: "Some studies have related hypothyroidism to muscle dysfunction... Furthermore, studies ... demonstrated that thyroid hormone action on skeletal muscles affects mainly type-I muscle fibers, which promote slow contractions and are most prevalent in the postural muscles recruited during prolonged effort" [1] Also, not sure where you are in the world but your doctor telling…
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Switching to a sit-stand desk is by far the best thing I've done: http://jakeseliger.com/2015/01/24/geekdesk-max-sit-stand-des... .
The best bang for buck ergonomics device for me has been a monitor stand that is spring loaded for easy height adjustment and goes higher than a normal monitor stand. You'll need one with a sit-stand desk anyway so I'd suggest getting one first. You need the monitor higher when standing to have correct posture. The monitor stands that come bundled with monitors are way too low if stationed on the same tabletop as you…
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I work at a Fortune 500 company, in an open office area. I was the first person to use a standing desk, by cobbling some cardboard boxes together. And then I was kind of a promoter, and also mentioned to the department chair: "By any reasonable measure, computer use is a workplace safety problem waiting to explode." In fact I goaded him into getting one for himself. Since then, quite a few people have gotten a VariDe…
You "goaded" your department chair?
But I told him, "long term computer use will kill you. Get a standing desk."
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> In some cases dumbbells will give you a better range of motion and help develop smaller muscles. This has always smelled like broscience to me. I guess I'm just skeptical that someone unable to create stable positions with a fixed object (barbell) will have more success creating proper stable positions off of objects that move freely. Based on what I've seen in the gym, it looks like the barbell users usually end u…
I prefer dumbbells to a regular benchpress, but it's largely because I don't have an exercise partner and I don't want to get trapped underneath a barbell if I can't lift it.
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[1] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru0scbx8DuI [2] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGkRDcMeSTY
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> I also don't know how more people aren't in the chiropractor's office weekly Maybe because there are no evidence that it's effective. https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/reference/chiropractic/
Oh Jesus. Take that elsewhere. Chiropractors make a big difference for plenty people. Also the practice dates back centuries before Dr. Palmer. Without Chiropractors and PT's who incorporate it into their practice there'd be a lot more people on opiates. I cannot get over this kind of unhelpful bullshit.
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
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One of the most frustrating things about working in New York is the ample amount of potential stairs to climb with almost every door locked from the stairwell.
The epidemic has long since spread to the west coast. The Seattle building I currently work in has some limited, well-defined accessible stairwells, but AFAICT the majority are one-way, emergency-only. I've worked in buildings as you describe: one-way, down-only. Sucks when you don't know this yet, think you'll take the stairs to the fourth floor only to discover that you need to climb all the way to the bottom then…
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It sounds great but I'm wondering, would this be accepted in any company?
I work at a Fortune 500 company, in an open office area. I was the first person to use a standing desk, by cobbling some cardboard boxes together. And then I was kind of a promoter, and also mentioned to the department chair: "By any reasonable measure, computer use is a workplace safety problem waiting to explode." In fact I goaded him into getting one for himself. Since then, quite a few people have gotten a VariDe…
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It sounds great but I'm wondering, would this be accepted in any company?
I work at a Fortune 500 company, in an open office area. I was the first person to use a standing desk, by cobbling some cardboard boxes together. And then I was kind of a promoter, and also mentioned to the department chair: "By any reasonable measure, computer use is a workplace safety problem waiting to explode." In fact I goaded him into getting one for himself. Since then, quite a few people have gotten a VariDe…
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Oh Jesus. Take that elsewhere. Chiropractors make a big difference for plenty people. Also the practice dates back centuries before Dr. Palmer. Without Chiropractors and PT's who incorporate it into their practice there'd be a lot more people on opiates. I cannot get over this kind of unhelpful bullshit.
> make a big difference for plenty of people... The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".