Your Chair and You

Written by Charlie on July 29, 2010

If you are the typical employee you probably spend a large part of your time in your little cubicle, sitting on your chair, typing at your computer. While this sounds easy, you would know that that is far from real. Now what made me decide to deal with this topic? Simply because like you, I have been reaping the results of my daily activities. Back pain, sharp pains in the neck, numb behind - do these symptoms sound familiar? While there is nothing much that we can do about our job description (sitting all the time!), there is something that we can do about the pain that we experience due to a sedentary lifestyle. For one, check out your chair. Ever since people started to exhibit symptoms like the ones I described above, different sectors have been trying to improve the conditions that employees have to work ...

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Tags: back pain, ergonomics, work environment

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My Back Hurts, Does Yours Too?

Written by Charlie on July 22, 2010

If you are like me, living a sedentary life, you probably feel more than your share of back pain. Though a large number of people experience back pain of some sort at some point in their lives, the exact causes of back pain have not been pinpointed. There are many factors that can cause back pain, especially for cases wherein there has been physical injury. Yet a majority of the recurrent back pain cases cannot be attributed to a single factor. If you think about the back being the workhorse of the body - it being the main support of the torso - it is but logical that this part of the body will feel stressed out most of the time. Add to this the fact that more and more people are starting to live ...