The Computer User’s Survival Guide: Staying Healthy in a High Tech World

The Computer User's Survival Guide: Staying Healthy in a High Tech World





The bad news: You can be hurt by working at a computer. The good news: Many of the factors that pose a risk are within your control. The Computer User's Survival Guide looks squarely at all the factors that affect your health on the job, including positioning, equipment, work habits, lighting, stress, radiation, and general health. It is not a book of gloom and doom. It is a guide to protecting yourself against health risks from your computer, while boosting your effectiveness and making your work more enjoyable. This guide will teach you what's going on "under the skin" when your hands and arms spend much of the day mousing and typing, and what you can do to prevent overuse injuries. You'll learn various postures to help reduce stress; what you can do to prevent glare from modern office lighting; simple breathing techniques and stretches to keep your body well oxygenated and relaxed; and how to reduce eye strain. Also covers radiation issues and what electrical equipment is responsible for the most exposure.Computers are awfully useful tools, but they cease to be effective when your eyes burn, your neck seizes up, and repetitive injury syndrome makes lifting your hands a lesson in pain. Stigliani's lucid and insightful guide is therefore a survival aid of the most necessary sort, detailing not only how to situate your computer and self to avoid injury, but how to cope with the stresses that get internalized into such incapacitating ailments.









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