Computer Exercises

Let's start 2006 with a computer exercise you can use this coming year to ward off carpal tunnel and other repetitive injuries that may come about from pounding the keyboard too long and too often.

At the start of each shift and after each break...

• Extend your arms and hands out in front of you. Bend and stretch hands and fingers upwards at your wrists and fingers, as if in a hand-stand position. Hold for a count of 5.
• Straighten both wrists and relax fingers.
• Make a tight fist with both hands.
• Then bend both wrists down while keeping the fist. Hold for a count of 5.
• Straighten both wrists and relax fingers, for a count of 5.
• Repeat exercise 10 times, then hang arms loosely at side and shake them for a couple of seconds. Total exercise time: 5-10 minutes.

If you're having problems visualizing these movements, click here to see the diagrams that came from the original source, which was Poster Exhibit D-29 at the Feb. 25, 1996, Annual Meeting American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.

We're going to have a great time this new year with this blog, so if you haven't already done so, crank up a feed to it so you won't miss any of the fun.

Chet Day
Editor, The Natural Health Circus
http://chetday.com

P.S. If you have any computer exercises you'd like to share, click on the comments link below and have at it.