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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on September 16, 2012, 02:35:45 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1147812
Oh my.
hedgehog (28,280 posts) Thu Sep 6, 2012, 01:14 PM
I need some advice re back strain:
I work from home and and on the computer constantly. I'm working on getting up and moving around every 45 minutes. (It's hard to do when I am on a roll and deep concentrating!)
My problem is that I find myself sliding down in my chair, which puts a strain on my back just above the lumbar region. I have the chair cranked down as far as it will go so my feet are on the floor. i have a quilt wadded up between me and the chair back so I am sitting back. I think the problem is that the seat is still too deep; that I end up inching forward and sliding down. I'm working from a laptop so I am looking down at about a 30 degree angle from where I sit.
mopinko (38,877 posts)
1. prop your laptop.
i bought a bamboo laptop stand that picks it up, and gives it better air circulation. much more comfortable. arrange your screens as close to eye level as possible.
i also find that instead of getting up, i fold myself over in my chair and just relax everything. just hang it down there until the knots are gone.
i hear you. you just become a knot sometimes.
^^the hypochondrial primitive, who's added quite a bit of flabbage lately.
dogday (23,926 posts)
3. I put my feet on an old speaker
It keeps my back against the chair and gives me great support.
You know, recently I read something about how sitting more than a couple of hours a day is injurious to the health, and so I examined things.
I'm in front of the computer a lot.
I stacked four of those plastic milk crates (the ones that hold four 1-gallon jugs) on top of this table, two high, to try something; working at the computer while standing up.
The new height still needs some adjustment--and something better than plastic milk-crates--but it looks like to me it'll work.
<<doesn't like doing things injurious to health.
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DUmmie should get one of those massage tables with the hole in it for your face. The DUmmie can then lay down on the job...which is their natural job position.
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I work from home and and on the computer constantly. I'm working on getting up and moving around every 45 minutes. (It's hard to do when I am on a roll and deep concentrating!)
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Back pain does suck. Getting up and going for a short walk to keep things stretched out does seem to help. But the person at DU might need to see a doctor to make sure there is not something serious going wrong.
I usually stand all day at work, some days I am in the same spot most of the day hardly able to move....when I do try to move I am really locked up.
But the difference between me and most DUmmies is, my pain is from working for a living.
It does not require much work to suck in section 8 housing, food stamps and free medical care.
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I sit at a desk all day too. I have actually been looking at turning my desk into a standing one by raising it with blocks and using a bar stool type chair as my main chair.
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I sit at a desk all day too. I have actually been looking at turning my desk into a standing one by raising it with blocks and using a bar stool type chair as my main chair.
That is the set up I had at one of my jobs in the car business when I ran a service dept.
I had a raised desk in the service lane. It worked out pretty well.