Ergonomics, ergonomics, ergonomics – it is all that we hear. For good reason too!
Today’s workers spend more and more time sitting at computer terminals. We try to find comfortable positions at our home and work office stations but these positions are deceitful.
Regardless of my chiropractic education, without the help of a few ergonomic devices, I end up slouching over my computer.
Approximately ten years ago, I started working on the development of an ergonomic apparatus that eventually would be known as the Ergo Nav. This device was 100% inspired by my treatment of patients who were suffering from computer related ailments and syndromes.
I began to notice a pattern amongst my patients who complained of computer related neck pain, shoulder pain, elbow pain, wrist pain and hand pain.
First of all, they typically carried worse symptoms on their dominant sides. Right handed folks had more severe symptoms on the right and lefties were worse on the left.
A second prevalent characteristic among these patients was the intense and often unbearable increase in their symptoms when they were using the computer mouse.
Almost all of my patients who suffered from some sort of neck, back or upper extremity complaint that was secondary to computer use complained that reaching to the desk for the mouse greatly exacerbated their pain!
One of the things that I tell my patients is that when they are in pain, regardless if it is neck pain, back pain or pain in some other joint, to pay attention to the activities that make the pain worse. This is good information to know because barring some significant injury; most of the time pain is the end result of some ongoing low level aggravation that more often than not goes un-noticed. Once you are in pain, the activities that have silently contributed to your current symptoms will be the activities that now noticeably cause your current symptoms to worsen.
The ongoing painful stress of reaching for the mouse is what led to the idea behind the Ergo Nav. The Ergo Nav was designed to be an inexpensive, adjustable and functional mouse platform that would allow a computer operator to operate the mouse in a comfortable, ergonomically friendly position.
By eliminating the need to reach for the mouse a large amount of stress can be eliminated reducing the chances of injury.
Visit our Ergo Nav Website to learn more or Buy Ergo Nav
Visit my San Diego Chiropractic Website to make an appointment
Better Health Steve Jones
(619) 280 0554
10393 San Diego Mission Rd Suite 130,
San Diego.
CA. 92108
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