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Re: [OM] (OM) OT Modern compact computers, and skeletal health

Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) OT Modern compact computers, and skeletal health
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 08:39:46 -0500
Not if you're a physiotherapist.  :-)

Motivations have consequences.  Why, for example, do we depend on the 
drug industry to find cures for our ailments when they make the most 
money by selling us lifetime treatment drugs rather than cures.

Chuck Norcutt


On 11/17/2013 12:52 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Wouldn't it be more effective to prevent rather than treat?
> By inventing a device to place the laptop in a much better position?
> Andrew Fildes
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> On 17/11/2013, at 7:30 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
>
>> This matter came up on the National Radio (NZ) programme on Saturday morning.
>>
>> A local physiotherapist has made an invention to help fix it.  See
>>
>> <http://www.bodystance.co.nz/index.php>
>>
>> Modern laptops, ipads, and the like, require, for the most part, users to 
>> adopt a bad posture
>> when using them.
>>
>> Head bent forward leading to severely hunched shoulders, and head tilted 
>> upwards so that
>> the chin is out.
>>
>> Not only are adults so affected, but since schools now require / supply such 
>> computers to
>> children from a fairly early age, children are too. Not quite as badly as 
>> adults since their
>> computer use is interrupted by physical activity, but it still applies.
>>
>> What this physio discovered was that young - middle aged adults were being 
>> referred to him
>> to fix badly damaged neck vertebrae (fused - locked in an un-natural 
>> position) resulting in
>> severe headaches and other problems. He eventually traced the cause as being 
>> these
>> micro-computers which lack the good posture potential of a normal desk-top 
>> machine.
>>
>> He has found many young and middle aged adults with the bad stooped upper 
>> back /
>> shoulder / neck area condition previously seen only in 70+ years old people.
>>
>> While he is based close to where I live in NZ,  he has discovered that there 
>> is a world-wide
>> pandemic of people around the world disabled from this. Millions of people. 
>> It is not only NZ.
>>
>> This is not all that can arise; the condition sometimes known as "cobbler's 
>> chest" (google it)
>> can arise, and this one is very difficult to treat. I know - I have it. All 
>> these conditions are
>> aggravated by poor eyesight and the small fonts typically used in these 
>> machines.
>>
>> Brian Swale
>>
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