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Re: programming and sitting up straight

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From: Dan Wallach
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 23:23
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In article <1b3fv7INNocr@agate.berkeley.edu> lee@soda.berkeley.edu (Lee Thompson-Herbert) writes:
>
>The "neutral position" shown in the literature given to me by Kaiser Permanente
>refers to the bend of the wrist, not the twist of the forarm.  Radial movement
>is a whole nother can of worms.
>
>Suggestion: add a GIF of a *good* illustration from an anatomy book to 
>the archive at soda.  It makes constriction points much more obvious if
>you can look at where the nerves run in relation to tendons, joints, 
>muscles, etc.  I'd offer to draw one, but that currently causes me more
>pain than typing. [gotta love pinched nerves :p]

I just got a new gif installed in the archive on soda.berkeley.edu:
~ftp/pub/typing-injury-faq/gifs/howtosit.gif -- it's a simple picture
of what your posture should look like when you're using a computer.

Check it out!

(Thanks to T. Kim Nguyen <kim@jts.com> for digitizing it...)


Dan
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Subject: Re: programming and sitting up straight
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