Avoiding RSI
Dr. Taraneh Razavi, Google Staff Doctor, has a post on discussing RSI (repetitive stress injury). I think especially in technology firm, RSI is a common injury for our modern office work – and often a hidden one until you find out the hard way. The posts has couple of quick tips:
– Breaks should be taken every 30-45 minutes for at least 5 minutes. If you need assistance there are free downloadable timers that will help remind you to do so.
– Stretch your arms, hands, neck, and back during breaks. This yoga site demonstrates some exercises. Other sites are listed below.
– Maintain posture alignment. Don’t slouch on the couch with the laptop.
– Work stations should be reviewed initially and with each office move. Adjust your chair, monitor, keyboard, mouse, laptop. Alternate keyboards and mice periodically.
It’s good to see Google’s staff doctor is sharing this to us, instead of keeping this in the internal memo list.
Avoiding RSI – [Official Google Blog]
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dcrad says on April 25th, 2006 at 2:14 am
As a sufferer of RSI which is related to my work, I think its cool that Google take it serously – its just a shame my company didnt until it was to late for me.
Claire Tompkins says on April 25th, 2006 at 4:28 am
One of my favorite RSI avoidance tricks is to switch mouse hands. I work on two different computers. One has the mouse on the left and one has it on the right, so I’m ambi-mousetrous! I am not ambi-dextrous, though; you don’t have to be to develop good mouse skills with both hands. If you’ve got a cordless mouse, you can easily switch back and forth at will.