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… » Continue
April 24 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: health, injury | 2 comments»
Back pain is one of the most common physical injuries. It may not only occur for whose work as lifting heavy objects. You will exposed by this risk if you sit in front of computer all day, or you stand for a long period of time. The worse thing is that back pain can be serious. It can be a long-term injury and it will… » Continue
October 30 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: health, injury | 24 comments»
When you feel you want to take a day off, there maybe a chance that you are not slacking off from work. Studies (which performed on rats) showed that it maybe caused by repetitive motion injury. When the repetitive work become unbearable, body will emit cytokines, proteins that help to start inflammation. Study shows that cytokines affects workers behaviour and creating a so called sick-worker syndrome which the brain may… » Continue
October 27 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: health, injury | 2 comments»
Repetitive motion injuries is a usual injury that occur for people who work on desktop and laptop in office. Now PDA users may have the similar problem. A case study written by Associated Press mentioned that using small electronic gadget with heavy thumb usage may lead to this type of injury:
… No national statistics exist on how many people suffer from this type of thumb ailment, but some doctors say… » Continue
October 24 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: injury, pda, treo | 1 comment»
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