Adjusting Your Computer for Improving Posture

Series Summary

Good posture is very important in everything we do. Everyday activities like sitting at a computer, standing or driving for long hours can become grueling with bad posture and can eventually cause osteoporosis if gone uncorrected. This is especially important to those of us that work in an office and sit in chairs for hours at a time. Learning good posture will make you much more comfortable during and at the end of every day.

This free video series gives several tips and techniques on maintaining good posture while doing anything from riding a bike to sitting at your computer. Here you will learn the correct and incorrect way to stand and how to tell if you need improvement in your posture as well as the best and worst types of ergonomically correct chairs available.

Video Transcript

" Hi! I am Angela on behalf of expertvillage.com, and right now I will be discussing posture and how to adjust the eyes at a computer so that you are not straining your neck. A way to do this is to close your eyes, look straight ahead and right now you should be looking at the middle of your screen. If you are not, you are looking slightly up or slightly down. You need to adjust that, because even if the neck strain is minimum, if you are in office and you are working 9:00 to 5:00, you are definitely going to feel the strain at the end of the day. So this computer, I will close my eyes and look forward, which is right here, so what I will have to do is adjust it. Also with desktop computers, it is easier because they are up higher, so I can locate the middle of the screen easier. Also when you are in a movie theatre and you are sitting up at the front of the row, you feel the strain in your neck. Also, if you are at a dinner scene and you are constantly looking over, even for that short period of time, you feel strain in your neck, so if you are in an office and you are frequently looking over and you have a tendency to look up, you are going to feel a very, very large strain everytime you do that. It will eventually get worse and then spread down to the neck, the shoulder and then the upper back and sometimes even in extreme suitations to lower back, so this is an example and a demonstration of how to adjust the eyes so that you do not strain your neck while working at an office."