Posts belonging to Category Ergonomics

Sitting Pretty

There’s a lot of ergonomic advice online about how to sit properly. Most of it promotes the 90-90-90 rule — 90-degree angles at the hips, knees and elbows. Such advice is enough to give ergonomics a bad rap because it’s not so comfortable for most people. My suggestion is to open up the joints a [...]

Save your thumb

Even in this era of Kindle and all the other digital book readers, I find myself preferring to read a book the old-fashioned way.  But the simple act of holding a book can cause problems for your wrist and hand, and especially the base of your thumb. I was excited when I came across the [...]

Saving the environment one bag at a time

We do our best to try to help the environment. In my house, we recycle, we compost and Toddy takes a shuttle to work, but one way we can do better is to remember to bring our own bags when grocery shopping.We have all kinds of bags around, but most of them never leave our [...]