My feet don’t reach the floor when I sit in my desk chair to work on the computer.
If I lower my chair so my feet reach the floor, then my computer monitor and the keyboard tray on my desk are too high and give me a slight shrug while I work. You will not believe how much head, neck, and back pain that barely noticeable tic of non alignment can cause.
If I don't get a migraine, the pain makes me feel beaten up all over my body, pain shoots down my extremities, and I feel like I want to vomit.
It took me years to find the right person to tell me that a poor ergonomic work station not tailored to someone of my petite stature is the cause of my mystery symptoms.
Luckily, since I already use a desk with a lowered keyboard tray, most of the adjustments I need to do to make sure my arms are wrists are parallel to my keyboard are on my desk chair. I use a couple of thick books as a monitor stand (,) some painter tape on the bottom of my desk chair to remind me where to reset my chair height, and awareness that if for example, I'm starting to feel a shooting pain in my arm I might be hunching over or set the mouse just a little too far right from its original position which makes me overreach slightly.
That's the shirt story long on why my feet often dangle three and half inches above the floor everyday while I work.
This is not ergonomic for the lower half of my body. Sometimes I get a slight knee ache.
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Thursday, August 28, 2014
How to Make an Office Chair Duct Tape Foot Rest in Ten Minutes Flat!
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