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Comfort at Your Computer: Body Awareness Training for Pain-Free Computer Use

 

by: Paul Linden, Ph.D.

With a goal of preventing injury, Comfort at Your Computer teaches an awareness of potentially harmful positions and shows how to achieve proper sitting posture and correct breathing for pain-free computing. Readers will learn exercises to prevent strain, such as a five-second movement break to do at a desk or a 20-minute stretching session for home.

Paperback book, 313 pages


Read the following chapter excerpts:

THE COMPUTER PROBLEM - Chapter 1

BALANCING YOUR PELVIS AND SPINAL COLUMN - Chapter 5


TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR "COMFORT AT YOUR COMPUTER"

PART I -- YOUR BODY
THE COMPUTER PROBLEM --Chapter 1

Body Awareness: A New Way of Approaching the Problem
How to use the book
Scope of the book

BODY AWARENESS IS THE KEY -- Chapter 2

Body Awareness
Holism

WHAT IS COMPUTER STRESS? -- Chapter 3

What is stress?
General effects of computer stress
Identifying stress
Musculoskeletal aspects of stress
Causes of stress in computer work

SOFTENING YOUR BREATHING AND VOICE -- Chapter 4
BALANCING YOUR PELVIS AND SPINAL COLUMN -- Chapter 5
GETTING TO THE HEART OF IT -- Chapter 6
GAINING EASE IN YOUR HANDS, ARMS AND SHOULDERS -- Chapter 7
IMPROVING USE OF YOUR LEGS -- Chapter 8
RELAXING AND BALANCING YOUR HEAD AND NECK -- Chapter 9
USING YOUR EYES COMFORTABLY -- Chapter 10
WHAT GOOD SITING POSTURE IS AND IS NOT -- Chapter 11
FIVE-SECOND MOVEMENT BREAKS DURING WORK - Chapter 12
TWENTY-MINUTE MOVEMENT SESSIONS FOR HOME - Chapter 13
THREE-MINUTE MOVEMENT BREAKS FOR THE OFFICE - Chapter 14


PART II -- YOUR WORK ENVIRONMENT
MAKING YOUR DESKTOP WORKSTATION COMFORTABLE -- Chapter 15

General points
Chair
Desk
Input devices
Monitor
Paper documents

USING LAPTOPS - Chapter 16

Using your laptop
On an airplane
Laptops with trackballs
Carrying your laptop

STANDING WORKSTATION -- Chapter 17
CHANGING THE WORK ENVIRONMENT -- Chapter 18
THE BEGINNING - Chapter 19
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