Computer Posture: How To Stop Laptops Doing Permanent Damage To Your Posture
Posted by admin on May 23, 2009
Improving your “computer posture” is one of the most effective ways to avoid getting rounded shoulders and neck ache.
While you need to be aware of your posture on any computer, when using a laptop it is especially easy to pick up bad habits.
The trouble with laptops is that they keyboard and display are too close together. Either you are looking down too much (bad for your neck), or your hands are too high (which encourages tense shoulders).
If only used for short periods at a time, laptops don’t really pose much risk, but increasingly people are spending several hours a day on them.
There are some solutions as demonstrated by posture expert Tamara James in the following video: -
Tamara recommends using a separate keyboard and mouse to improve the laptop’s poor ergonomics, which made me wonder if laptop manufactures should be made to supply such extras as standard. Better still would be a laptop with a detachable keyboard.