I don’t actually remember if I wrote about it or not, but about a month ago, I got a back problem that was symptomatic in only one way…it hurt like all hell.
The fun part about it was that the doctor discovered, while checking out the current problem, that I have a degenerative problem in L4 and L5, most probably due to bad posture at the computer for many years, and that I was lucky it didn’t show up earlier, due to my changing my posture about 4 years ago.
According to my doctor, he sees a whole lot of people with back problems resulting from a bad posture at the computer, due to the fact that most of us just don’t pay attention to how our desk, computer and body interact with each other, because it doesn’t actually hurt…until it’s too late to do much about it.
I’m talking about this because I found a pretty damn good article by Jeff Atwood about Computer Workstation Ergonomics today on my RSS feed, and thought that it’d be a good thing to share with my three readers. The post includes pictures and a lot of good pointers about how one should approach those long hours that most of us spend at the computer every day….had I known all of this 15 years ago, I’d probably have avoided the stupid painkillers I’ve been taking lately and that the doctor says I’ll probably be taking for the rest of my life.
Go read the article, and, most importantly, apply the principles given therein to your own working area…it’ll save you lots of pain and money in the long run.
Tags: back pain, computer ergonomics, Geekness, health
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