Are You Making These Common Computer-Use Mistakes?

OK so you have been working at a computer for a while now, several hours a day and over a period of some years perhaps.

If not full-fledged Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or some Repetitive Stress Injury related problem, you are perhaps beginning to feel the first niggling of muscular or joint strain, some aches and pains are making themselves felt?

If so, read on to evaluate if you are committing these common but potentially problematic mistakes that are the underlying reason for the aches and pains:

Do you Pound your Keyboard? If you do, you may do well to remember that pounding at the keyboard is not just a figure of speech, and modern computer keyboards being what they are, don’t need much pressure at all.

Pounding at the keyboard literally went out with the antiquated typewriters and doing this now, will only cause aches and pains, even tingling feelings in the hands.

So pay some attention to the way you type and either make a change in your keyboard or make sure that you change the way you type!

Do you grip the mouse too hard? You may of course be doing it quite unconsciously, or it could be some other stress that causes you to do so, but do you grip your mouse too hard? If so, remember your computer is not going anywhere you can relax that death grip on it.

Do you rest your arms and elbows heavily on the armrest or desk? Leaning you arms heavily can put pressure on the ulnar nerve which is so called due to its being near the forearm’s ulna bone. So work in a way that does not place pressure on this area.

Do you rest the base of your hands on the desk? Resting your hands and your wrist on the desk is one of the most probable causes for the dreaded carpal tunnel syndrome, because this position of the hands actually places a lot of pressure on the carpal tunnel.

What this also does is, it makes the smaller hand muscles do work that should actually be divided between the elbow and shoulder muscles as well.

Do you extend your pinkie finger or your thumb? When typing, the littlest finger and the thumb are probably the lesser used digits, this is probably more so if one does not type in the prescribed way and this in turn can strain the tendons of the fingers.

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