It's true ! I have all three, and now my legs and upper back hurt instead !
Thank you, ergonomics !
Your back hurts because you keep the same posture even when your body tells you not to.
When you have a job, and say work for 3-4 hours, your body will tell you to stop and do something else for a couple hours. But you can’t cause life.
The ergonomic stuff are fulfilling their purpose by giving you a decent posture, your just holding it too long.
This is also why being rich would be a solution, even those who are rich but work, they aren’t working 40 hours every week nonstop. It’s also why they are so keen that “golf meetings” are so effective.
no, my lower back hurts because i got impaled there. it hurts less because i have a chair with a double rocker and well positioned monitors
Did you meet Vlad?
Actually my back hurts because your mother damaged it with her large mass when we were engaged in coitus.
This guy pegs
I read coitus as combat. Makes sense I suppose
combat is implied. if you're doing it right.
have standing desk, always lowered
real solution for most people would be to start exercising
That sounds like a lot of work ...
Are you sure there aren't easy solutions that only involve spending money and not effort? Maybe a pill or expensive chair?
Well this and a shorter work day/week so one doesn't have to chose between a social life, a healthy body, home upkeep, child care, and self care. Maybe sprinkle in some accessible and free healthcare both physical and mental. Idk, wouldn't be the first time i was wrong about something.
While all of these things would obviously be great, you still need to do the exercise.
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"Hmmm, I'm going to write you a prescription for 75% more RGB LED backlighting"
I have all those things, but my back hurts because I fucked it up on my 20's moving file cabinets at a minimum wage job.
I do consider it the reason i don't have carpal tunnel after 30 years of IT/Code/Sysadmin though.
The last time I hired a few people to help me move, I gave each one an extra $30 just to get themselves a goddamn back brace, that shit makes me worried when I see young people yanking heavy shit around like it's not doing anything to their bodies.
I'm a personal trainer, I've destroyed two lumbar discs, gotten disc replacement surgery and currently working with a physiotherapist to get back on track. Back pain can have many causes. Anything from disc degeneration to muscle imbalances. If you're not in pain that prevents you from doing them, there are a few exercises my physiotherapist has me doing.
But if you have more severe lower back pain, go see a doctor and get an MRI if necessary to find out if there's something going on with your discs. Don't just try to work through pain and ignore the problem. That's what I did, and it just made things worse. You may not necessarily need surgery, but it's good to find the root cause so you know what options you have.
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Nah it's because I don't have enough monitors.
Need a 4th one to balance things out nicely
But then you won't have a middle one to look straight ahead. Go for 5 instead
TL;DR your back hurts because you're poor.
Nah, OP is just being elitist trying to justify those purchases. (not that they're bad ideas, just unnecessary)
The real answer is posture and lack of stretching and exercize. Unless you have an underlying issue like scoliosis, stretching and exercize fix 90% of the aches and pains young people whine about with "getting old" in their 30's.
Well actually the worst thing for posture is having the same all the time so sit/stand desk are rly helpful if you use them by shifting you position.
Pretty sure OP is sarcastic
Yea, it's a meme. Though sadly a lot of people I run into unironically think the meme is the best solution.
Until knowledge becomes laughably common, I'm going to try to spread what is best. Especially when the better option is way cheaper.
Yo I swear by my trackball mouse. Vertical mice are trash tho, complete placebo I'm sure of it.
Absolutely, I love my trackball, too. As much as I always want a better one, I'm never going back to mice.
I use a trackball mouse. That must be why my back is doing great.
i find trackballs fascinating because i really like it but everybody else in the family fucking hate it as if kicked the dog or something. on the brighter side of things - everybody gave up on snooping around on my desktop
everybody gave up on snooping around on my desktop
Bonus points if you can touch-type: Legendless blank keycaps. XD
now that's some next level shit. Gotta try it out. Thanks for the tip.
If that doesn't work learn Dvorak
We’re old, all the kids are learning colemack these days.
The kids are wrong
Those kids ain't right, Peggy.
Jokes on you! I do all of that and it still hurts!
What if you’re in construction?
You hurt your back carrying your standing desk up ten floors.
I could have sworn it was due to the severe injury I sustained, but who am I to argue with science?
I hate that planking is the best exercise for strengthening your lower back. They’re just so boring to do.
You can spice them up with alternating leg raises or do a superman or bird dog. There are also loads of other exercises that work. The best exercise isn't the most effective one, it's the one you actually do consistently
I forgot the bird-dog!
While dumb expensive the Aeron chair makes sitting at a desk all day do able and not painful.
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