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Watch Out Your Body Alignment!
Filed Under (Holistic Remedies, Natural Cure) by Eri on 09-04-2009
The most important of healthy living naturally and holistic remedies, are not only from our regular intake. The habitual of your overall body posture also significantly affect your health in long term. These days as we cannot work without computer or laptop, even for personal use, one of the very basic illnesses comes during working in office and sitting in front of your laptop or computers. Never under estimate the syndrome in your eyes, back spine or even your hands when clicking a mouse.
Paw Alignment! Ergonomic with the mouse
Every job that applied in office building and field has the same risk, either way the field worker are more alert, yet the awareness to avoid the illness has the same priority.
An example given from real life experience I read in a magazine, a presenter has syndrome illness when she worked in a coffined space with AC, outlook of her office, elevation of the table, chair and computers have caused of it.
Afterward she made a drastically change on the layout office based on the health practitioners, and it was healthy living for her lifestyle.
Working Hard! and forgot everything…
Syndrome or symptoms health in confine space, usually happen to people who never or the incumbent is station on the office, different than marketing people that are mobile. The sickness is called “Sick Building Syndrome”. A deposit of illness syndrome occurs to people who have been working too long in office.
The symptoms can be identified by fatigue easily, acute pain all over body, sleepy, laziness and bore tired. It also caused by the layout office is not according to health for amount of people to breath healthy, ventilation can not overcome the exhaust required to an exchange of fresh air,
Ergonomic Intervene
Utilizing an extensive time in front of computers without the right body alignment position can also inflicted the health of person’s. It is called by symptoms “repetitive motion injury”, i.e. much case given example as follow
- Not in a right body alignment position when talking in the phone, or spinning around
- Not putting utensils in a right position and giving the attitude to” reach out over extensive” when you need them, can also causing pain
- Size of the chair that creates a bad posture to your back spine and the posture inflicted to your daily habits, over time period becomes sickness.
If this ergonomic function is not well taken care of, it will disrupt the food supply to our body, since our muscle and nerve not having the right circulation, at some point it will clogged and causing acute pain or injury.
What should we do about it?
1. Do stretching before going to office.
2. Do light stretching ergonomic exercise before going to lunch, with the main point to relax your back spine, make it straight, neck, head, shoulder, legs and arms don’t forget fingers too. It is good to rest and relax from the computer work every 1hour for 1-2 minutes just to give your muscles some flexibilities and avoid eye strain.
3. Practice breathing naturally while working in front of computer.
Please share with us if you have any other tips for keeping our body alignment well and healthy.
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Along with proper ergonomics, taking regular breaks from the computer to do eye exercises can help prevent or reduce the effects of computer eye strain.
Our eyes and vision were designed for viewing distance as hunters and gatherers, and not for ongoing near work as required by regular computer use. As a result, Computer Eye Strain is becoming one of the major eye complaints heard by eye doctors today.
Symptoms can include increased myopia, blurred vision, headaches, slow refocusing, difficulty concentrating, neck, shoulder and back pain
Eye strain can be reduced significantly by taking regular breaks from the computer, resting your eyes, stretching and doing eye exercises.
For a demo of 3 great eye exercises by Dr. Grossman, one of the Country’s leading behavioral optometrists, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W10j2fL0hy0
Dr. Grossman also offers his free eye exercise booklet at his website at Natural Eye Care Free Eye Exercises with his 11 favorite eye exercises and acupressure eye points to massage regularly.
Finally, there is also an excellent section at his website on “Computer Eye Strain” under “Eye Diseases” that provides a Computer Eye Strain “Self-Help“ section with great tips of relieving eyestrain due to computer use.
Also, a few research studies show that supplementing with 6mg per day of astaxanthin per day significantly improved eye strain at week 2 and 4 of the test period.
For more information, go to Natural Eye Care for Computer Eye Strain
Doing business is not only will make you more money but also make you sick. I felt terrible every time i spent too much time sitting in chair, my eyes blurs and my back aches. Maybe I have to suggest to my boss to rearrange the layout of our office. Thank you for sharing!
@doingbusiness, Your welcome and please stay tune with us, the office composition layout do have effect on the employee health.
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Ergonomics plays a major role in eye fatigue. If you are suffering from eye strain and eye fatigue, seek an ergonomic assessment from your health and safety officer. Protecting your vision starts with the little things.
Thanks Michael for your detail explanations about eye strain, what a very informative stuff:) One thing for sure is while our work mostly done in front of the computer, we should take a break at least every half an hour for relaxation, either by a brisk walk or to have our eyes rest a while.
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Yes Macular, everything about our overall health starts with small things. Some say don’t sweat about them. However, better safe than sorry and take further precautions to take care our health in the long run.
This is great, keep your feedback coming:)
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I am dumbfounded by the fact that in a world as bright and intelligent as ours, that so few people seem to pay attention to valuable choices which are readily accessible to them to enhance their personal wellness. It seems that a majority of people are more interested in a band aid in the form of a MD visit and precriptions than in overseeing their own wellness process, and doing so in a way that is natural, predictable, and sustainable. That is what makes me value attempts like yours to prepare and prompt individuals to action. I hope that through these attempts, and others, that awareness increases rapidly and the population at large comes back to a mentality of personal health that doesn’t depend upon specialists and pills.