Beyond Posture
About thirty years ago, there was heightened awareness of an area of science that previously had not been a major focus for the office workplace. The issue arose often related to reports of an injury called Carpel Tunnel Syndrome, where office workers experienced sometimes debilitating wrist pain resulting from the strain of hours of keyboarding. It appears the new proliferation of computers in the office was contributing to skeletal injuries, both wrist and neck ailments, and sometimes this even required surgeries to remedy the condition. In this context, many people became acquainted with the term “ergonomics”. Actually, ergonomics had existed as a scientific specialty long before the 1990s and the attention that was paid to office workers at keyboards. The term itself is a combination of the Greek word “ergon” meaning work and “nomos” meaning natural law, and its origins date to early in the 20th Century. The science of …
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