4 Useful Ergonomic Tricks & Tips

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Ergo Breaks

When at work, taking a break prevents stress or reduces it all together. It also helps to maintain your performance throughout the day. 

At the end of the day, it’s about injury minimization. When we think about pain or dysfunction, it typically results from

• Static or

• Awkward postures

So, What’s the solution? Take breaks from work and move often. Remember this mantra: “The next position is the best position.” Ideally, move every 15 min if able. 

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20-20-20 Rule

To Prevent digital eye strain do the following: 

• 20 second break,

• every 20 minutes

• at something 20 ft away
  

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Ergo Chair - What Adjustments Does it Need?

First things first - your chair is the foundation of your workstation. It serves the purpose of buying you time before your body fatigues. Knowing this we need as many adjustments in our chair to buy us as much time as possible before we fatigue. How many? Generally the more the better. The big 4 to consider are:

• Seat height adjustment

• Lumbar support and adjustability

• Seat pan tilt options

• Height adjustable arm rests

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What’s The Opposite of Sitting? It’s Not Standing!

"Sitting is the new smoking” is the claim and it's true in its physiological long term effects on the human body - which aren’t good. In response to these findings, we have offered an alternative from sitting to standing workstations. 

 To be clear, standing isn’t bad and I’m not advocating that standing is bad. Standing is good and much better than sitting… 

But what if I told you that standing isn’t the opposite of sitting. Would you believe me?

Truth be told, walking is the opposite of sitting. And walking should be the remedy to our sitting spells. So, keep calm and walk on.