On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:09:14PM -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: > The upper-middle part of the screen should be at eye level, so most of > the screen is level with your eye line or slightly down. Otherwise > you need to tilt your head back to look up, which is unnatural and > causes neck strain.
Huh. all the references I see seem to agree with you on this one. > A reclining chair also makes things a lot worse. You wind up with no > head support and strain your neck even more in the reclined position. > This is not a setup for someone who sits at a computer all day. Some > people can get away with it because they are don't sit at their desk > for an extended period of time I mean, I'm not an expert here, just someone who spends a great deal of time in a chair, but I do beleive that reclining works well compared to sitting up straight. Half the time I like to put my feet on the desk while I work, too. I don't know very many people who actually sit up straight like they are sopposed to, I mean outside of those kneeling chairs. I've seen references to this around. Hm. I can't seem to find the actual study, so it's possible I'm wrong, but here is one of the references: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/PainManagement/story?id=2677877&page=1 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
