Shoulder mech\u00adan\u00adics seem to be one of those top\u00adics that people don\u2019t talk about much, but any time I men\u00adtion the issues I have with my shoulders (too much time at the com\u00adputer each day) I\u2019m by no means the only one affected. I\u2019ve been doing Pil\u00adates for years, which has helped, but that\u2019s only a couple of hours a week, which leaves lots of time dur\u00ading the rest of the week to undo the good work. <\/p>\n
I spent a bit of time sit\u00adting at my desk, fig\u00adur\u00ading out in which pos\u00adi\u00adtion my shoulders and wrists would be hap\u00adpi\u00adest. I talked to the people at ErgoCanada<\/a> (they\u2019re very help\u00adful and very know\u00adledge\u00adable and I recom\u00admend talk\u00ading to them if you\u2019re based in Canada) and ended up with a split key\u00adboard that can be placed in a num\u00adber of con\u00adfig\u00adur\u00ada\u00adtions, the Kin\u00ades\u00adis Cor\u00adpor\u00ada\u00adtion Freestyle2<\/a> (Amazon US<\/span> link<\/a>). The first few days using it were a little weird, while I got used to hav\u00ading to use the recom\u00admen\u00added hand for each let\u00adter, and get\u00adting used to the place\u00adment of the back\u00adspace and delete keys. I played around with the con\u00adfig\u00adur\u00ada\u00adtions, start\u00ading with the splayed<\/a> con\u00adfig\u00adur\u00ada\u00adtion, but at the moment I use the straight con\u00adfig\u00adur\u00ada\u00adtion with some 10cm between the two halves. The spa\u00adcing I use var\u00adies a little depend\u00ading on what I\u2019m doing, if it\u2019s mostly writ\u00ading or a lot of mouse work. The key\u00adboard is quiet, with a good feel; the keys are light but stable. There\u2019s also a bunch of accessor\u00adies to tilt the key\u00adboard in vari\u00adous ways, or enable a wider gap between the halves, but I haven\u2019t seen the need for those yet. One day I may get the Mac ver\u00adsion to go with my laptop; since it splits into two pieces it does pack a lot smal\u00adler for travel than a reg\u00adu\u00adlar keyboard.<\/p>\n As well as using the key\u00adboard, I\u2019ve tried to get into the habit of doing small simple shoulder rolls on a reg\u00adu\u00adlar basis, to keep the ball aligned bet\u00adter in the sock\u00adet. There are lots of web sites that explain ver\u00adsions of how to do these but most seem to be aimed at body\u00adbuild\u00aders; this page from the Yoga journ\u00adal<\/a> is more gentle than most.<\/p>\n These two things, put togeth\u00ader, seem to be help\u00ading. Either or both would be worth think\u00ading about if you have shoulder or arm issues and spend hours at a com\u00adputer each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shoulder mech\u00adan\u00adics seem to be one of those top\u00adics that people don\u2019t talk about much, but any time I men\u00adtion the issues I have with my shoulders (too much time at the com\u00adputer each day) I\u2019m by no means the only one affected. I\u2019ve been doing Pil\u00adates for years, which has helped, but that\u2019s only \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cShoulder Management\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![splayed<\/a> con\u00adfig\u00adur\u00ada\u00adtion, but at the moment I use the straight con\u00adfig\u00adur\u00ada\u00adtion with some 10cm between the two halves. The spa\u00adcing I use var\u00adies a little depend\u00ading on what I\u2019m doing, if it\u2019s mostly writ\u00ading or a lot of mouse work. The key\u00adboard is quiet, with a good feel; the keys are light but stable. There\u2019s also a bunch of accessor\u00adies to tilt the key\u00adboard in vari\u00adous ways, or enable a wider gap between the halves, but I haven\u2019t seen the need for those yet. One day I may get the Mac ver\u00adsion to go with my laptop; since it splits into two pieces it does pack a lot smal\u00adler for travel than a reg\u00adu\u00adlar keyboard.<\/p>\nAs well as using the key\u00adboard, I\u2019ve tried to get into the habit of doing small simple shoulder rolls on a reg\u00adu\u00adlar basis, to keep the ball aligned bet\u00adter in the sock\u00adet. There are lots of web sites that explain ver\u00adsions of how to do these but most seem to be aimed at body\u00adbuild\u00aders; this page from the Yoga journ\u00adal<\/a> is more gentle than most.<\/p>\nThese two things, put togeth\u00ader, seem to be help\u00ading. Either or both would be worth think\u00ading about if you have shoulder or arm issues and spend hours at a com\u00adputer each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shoulder mech\u00adan\u00adics seem to be one of those top\u00adics that people don\u2019t talk about much, but any time I men\u00adtion the issues I have with my shoulders (too much time at the com\u00adputer each day) I\u2019m by no means the only one affected. I\u2019ve been doing Pil\u00adates for years, which has helped, but that\u2019s only \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cShoulder Management\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.micwil.com\/images\/gallery\/kinesis_corporation_freestyle2_convertible_keyboard_p3_1200x500.jpg\"){kind=link}