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Do you spend your days owing a computer and do you often hurt in the neck, to the shoulders or to the back? You would have to incline advantage maybe 15 degrees toward the rear of the file your flesh and the support of your keyboard.

It is what Dominica recommended The One-eyed, an ergonomist specialized concerning unrests musculoskeletal (MSD) that touch the employees of office, at the time of a convention on the TMS held in Montréal1.

"Most people who work to the computer tends to bend toward the before, to see the screen better, indicate Dominica The One-eyed.

A hyperextension of the neck that results from it, long-term, results in chronic pains to the superior members. "These reach 75% of the suffering people that I met in enterprises", she / it specifies.

The elbows, the wrists and the fingers are, them also, reached when one is inclined toward a long time before the. With prejudicial consequences.

"When he / it is leaned toward the before, the user looks for spontaneously areas of media, either on the office or on the keyboard, explain the ergonomist. It provokes tensions to the elbows, to the wrists and to the fingers that can lead to a tendinitis. "

A simple solution

Within the enterprises where she / it intervened, Dominica The One-eyed noted that a light regulating of the file of the flesh and the support of the keyboard, toward the rear, procured a reduction of the TMS to the shoulders, to the neck and to the superior members.

"While adjusting 15 degrees toward the rear the slant of the seat, the file and the keyboard, the gravity pushes the back to lean to the file and the stance does not entail any muscular tension anymore. Thus, the head stays to the vertical and the effort to maintain it is minimal, "she / it explains.

As the back does not need the arms anymore to take support on the keyboard or on the office, the elbows, the wrists and the fingers are, them also, free of the muscular tension.

The solution advanced by Dominique The One-eyed asks for a reorganization of the spatial planning of the office. She / it can also require the purchase of facilities, but it is not about special facilities.

Those that will opt for this stance will need one period of adaptation of some days. "They must, gradually, to reorganize their station of work in order to keep the papers and objects of which they have need close at hand when they work," specify the ergonomist.

No survey has been led on the solution proposed by Dominique The One-eyed, that would wish that besides himself of it applies of the researchers. But she / it sustains that this solution generally procures some kindness long-term at those that adopt it.

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