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Pain Free at Your PC: Using a Computer Doesn't Have to Hurt
Using a computer doesn't have to hurt.
Prevent or reverse repetitive stress injuries
Cure carpal tunnel syndrome
End chronic wrist, shoulder, and neck pain
Ease eyestrain
Avoid surgery, drugs, and wrist braces
Using a computer should challenge your mind, not your body.
As computers become a larger part of our daily lives both at work and at home, complaints of painful wrists, sore shoulders, stiff necks, and blurry vision associated with computer use continue to soar.
But the good news is that this chronic pain can easily be prevented or cured without surgery or drugs--or expensive "ergonomic" equipment. There's no need to move your monitor, wear wrist braces, or sit in a specially designed chair.
Instead, Pete Egoscue, using the techniques and principles developed at his renowned clinic, shows you how to keep pointing and clicking for hours--pain free.
You'll learn how
Avoid or treat common but debilitating repetitive stress injuries, including carpal tunnel syndrome
Recognize and remedy problems in posture and movement before they cause pain
Do easy-to-perform exercises at your desk to eliminate chronic hand, wrist, shoulder, back, and neck pain
Quickly and easily correct damaging patterns of motion
And much more
Prevent or reverse repetitive stress injuries
Cure carpal tunnel syndrome
End chronic wrist, shoulder, and neck pain
Ease eyestrain
Avoid surgery, drugs, and wrist braces
Using a computer should challenge your mind, not your body.
As computers become a larger part of our daily lives both at work and at home, complaints of painful wrists, sore shoulders, stiff necks, and blurry vision associated with computer use continue to soar.
But the good news is that this chronic pain can easily be prevented or cured without surgery or drugs--or expensive "ergonomic" equipment. There's no need to move your monitor, wear wrist braces, or sit in a specially designed chair.
Instead, Pete Egoscue, using the techniques and principles developed at his renowned clinic, shows you how to keep pointing and clicking for hours--pain free.
You'll learn how
Avoid or treat common but debilitating repetitive stress injuries, including carpal tunnel syndrome
Recognize and remedy problems in posture and movement before they cause pain
Do easy-to-perform exercises at your desk to eliminate chronic hand, wrist, shoulder, back, and neck pain
Quickly and easily correct damaging patterns of motion
And much more
208 pages, Paperback
First published November 2, 1999
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May 22, 2013
Egoscue knows that he has two jobs to do with this book. Yes, he needs to have simple, finite exercises that anyone can easily follow using no special equipment. But he also knows that first he must convince his readership that the source of their joint and muscle pain isn't where it hurts, but rather in the structural supports elsewhere in the body.
I think he does a great job with the explanation portion of the book which comprises the first half. I know absolutely nothing about human anatomy (what is this appendage for again?), but Egoscue's case seems well-reasoned to me. Obviously, at some point you just have to accept that he's telling the truth, but he makes it easy by being very persuasive (despite some of the workings of the body being quite counterintuitive!)
The exercises are broken into four sets. I imagine just about everyone who reads this book will be doing the first set for a while - it's for people who currently have pain. The exercises are easy to perform and take about 15 minutes, just as Egoscue promises (actually, they only took me 12 minutes because I did the lower times until I work up to the longer times).
The middle two sets of exercises are for people who only use computers a minuscule or really tiny amount of time, respectively. I can't even imagine what that is like.
Then the last set is for people like me who use computers all the freaking time. That's what I'll apparently be able to ease into after I'm pain free. Then I'll do those for the rest of my life (!). Hey, if it works, I'll do 'em.
Only time will tell if it works. My wrist hurts at the moment because I really jacked it up lifting a certain somebody who is getting sooo big, yes she is, and who can say all kinds of words now! But my back feels good. And I feel good during and after doing the exercises - which seems like a pretty good sign to me. Perhaps I'll check back with an update for this review when I've made some real progress.
I also feel like I understand why it hurts now. Not sure if it's useful to know, but I feel a little better just knowing.
Tags: bones, joins, muscles, tendons, long nights wishing I was being more productive while just aimlessly surfing and gradually grinding my wrist gristle into meaty slime
I think he does a great job with the explanation portion of the book which comprises the first half. I know absolutely nothing about human anatomy (what is this appendage for again?), but Egoscue's case seems well-reasoned to me. Obviously, at some point you just have to accept that he's telling the truth, but he makes it easy by being very persuasive (despite some of the workings of the body being quite counterintuitive!)
The exercises are broken into four sets. I imagine just about everyone who reads this book will be doing the first set for a while - it's for people who currently have pain. The exercises are easy to perform and take about 15 minutes, just as Egoscue promises (actually, they only took me 12 minutes because I did the lower times until I work up to the longer times).
The middle two sets of exercises are for people who only use computers a minuscule or really tiny amount of time, respectively. I can't even imagine what that is like.
Then the last set is for people like me who use computers all the freaking time. That's what I'll apparently be able to ease into after I'm pain free. Then I'll do those for the rest of my life (!). Hey, if it works, I'll do 'em.
Only time will tell if it works. My wrist hurts at the moment because I really jacked it up lifting a certain somebody who is getting sooo big, yes she is, and who can say all kinds of words now! But my back feels good. And I feel good during and after doing the exercises - which seems like a pretty good sign to me. Perhaps I'll check back with an update for this review when I've made some real progress.
I also feel like I understand why it hurts now. Not sure if it's useful to know, but I feel a little better just knowing.
Tags: bones, joins, muscles, tendons, long nights wishing I was being more productive while just aimlessly surfing and gradually grinding my wrist gristle into meaty slime
February 9, 2018
I think this is a ground-breaking book with a lot of good information in it, but I have to say that I was disappointed in how everything was presenting. He said more of "everything everyone is doing is wrong", but didn't do a great job of presenting what his solutions are instead. That may be just how I felt while reading it and might not be accurate, but that is my impression. Regardless, I found this to be a really valuable book and will be incorporating his exercises into my routine.
June 7, 2021
The exercises didn't necessarily help my wrist pain, but they certainly helped my posture and core and gave me a lot to think about.
October 29, 2024
I'm on day 4 of this physio program. Review to come (probably) after day 14.
October 11, 2012
It feels like everyone should read this book, pc-worker or not, in pain or not. It has explained to me exactly why I'm in pain, there is a lot of common sense in there but a lot of stuff you hear time and time again but explained rather than just rhetoric. The biggest thing for me was learning that the site of pain is not where the problem is...so much sense and I wished I'd found this book years ago, but glad I've found it finally - it has quite possibly changed my life.
May 4, 2015
A book of medical advice I'm reading to help combat ergonomic issues. Reads like one of these wacky things you see on TV and aren't sure if they're legit. But the basic idea and execution seems pretty good. We'll see how well it works over time.
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