Wouldn't it be more effective to prevent rather than treat?
By inventing a device to place the laptop in a much better position?
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On 17/11/2013, at 7:30 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
> This matter came up on the National Radio (NZ) programme on Saturday morning.
>
> A local physiotherapist has made an invention to help fix it. See
>
> <http://www.bodystance.co.nz/index.php>
>
> Modern laptops, ipads, and the like, require, for the most part, users to
> adopt a bad posture
> when using them.
>
> Head bent forward leading to severely hunched shoulders, and head tilted
> upwards so that
> the chin is out.
>
> Not only are adults so affected, but since schools now require / supply such
> computers to
> children from a fairly early age, children are too. Not quite as badly as
> adults since their
> computer use is interrupted by physical activity, but it still applies.
>
> What this physio discovered was that young - middle aged adults were being
> referred to him
> to fix badly damaged neck vertebrae (fused - locked in an un-natural
> position) resulting in
> severe headaches and other problems. He eventually traced the cause as being
> these
> micro-computers which lack the good posture potential of a normal desk-top
> machine.
>
> He has found many young and middle aged adults with the bad stooped upper
> back /
> shoulder / neck area condition previously seen only in 70+ years old people.
>
> While he is based close to where I live in NZ, he has discovered that there
> is a world-wide
> pandemic of people around the world disabled from this. Millions of people.
> It is not only NZ.
>
> This is not all that can arise; the condition sometimes known as "cobbler's
> chest" (google it)
> can arise, and this one is very difficult to treat. I know - I have it. All
> these conditions are
> aggravated by poor eyesight and the small fonts typically used in these
> machines.
>
> Brian Swale
>
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