Is Your Chair Really The Problem? One of the questions I am asked most frequently by clients who suffer with pain whilst working is: “What sort of chair should I get?” And the answer, I respond with – “Is your chair really the problem?” There is no doubt that a chair or more specifically the […]
Time For A New Dance Partner? “You can’t keep dancing with the devil and ask why you’re still in hell” – Unknown. This is a favourite quote of mine and it often comes to mind when I am working with my clients to assist them to take back control of their pain at work. Often […]
[WARNING] Don’t Become a Statistic In a study conducted by Cook, Burgess-Limerick & Chang (2000) they found the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders including neck and shoulder pain in computer users to be up to 79%. I would imagine now with the ever increasing dependence on the use of laptops and other mobile devices such as […]
Buck The Trend – Take A Stand I recently attended a three day conference where there were over 1100 participants. I love to people watch and observe the behaviours of those around me. At present, I am very focussed on health behaviours, particularly with our ever increasing sedentary ways (not only at work but in […]
Did your dreams of self-employment include physical pain? One of my main motivators for starting my own business was my family. At the time, I decided to go into business my son was nine months old and my daughter was approaching three. Whilst on maternity leave I had been redundant from my job and I […]
Pain at work is NOT okay! Ergonomics is all about fitting the task to the man. It is a science concerned with human factors and in the context of a workplace, is intended to maximise productivity levels through eliminating an individual’s discomfort and fatigue. Where there is a mismatch between an individual, their environment and […]
The couch is not an appropriate workspace! Do you have a designated workspace when working from home or do you just set-up wherever and get too it? Do you set yourself up with the laptop on the couch, on the bed (whether in bed under the covers or on the bed) or maybe even at […]
Fatigue and good posture are not friends! I have learnt from personal experience that fatigue and good posture are not friends! I bet you know the feeling all too well too. Picture this – you are burning the midnight oil trying to get some work completed, so tired that you are leaning so far forward […]
Mousing Left Handed Challenge In my experience, the majority of people I see use the mouse with their right hand. I am one of those people too. I often suggest swapping the mouse between the right and left side, to share the workload between both upper limbs. In actual fact, positioning the mouse on the […]
Behavioural Change – Is difficult, but well worth the rewards… One of the key elements of any working from home, ergonomic or workstation assessment that I complete with my clients is education. Education, with a key focus on the importance of behavioural change in eliminating unnecessary pain. Understanding that our behaviours or habits are actually […]