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The One Secret To Setting the Perfect Ergonomic Workstation

You probably get it now how to set up an ergonomic workstation. For a start, you get a desk and an ‘ergonomic’ office chair. Then you buy a monitor, separate keyboard and mouse. Finally, you place your workstation near the window. Setting up your ergonomic workstation...

How to Avoid Back Pain from these 5 WFH Bad Habits

Home Office Ergonomics

Working from home (WFH) is here to stay. Hence, work-related back pain is on the rise too. Because you are not in the office anymore and have picked up WFH bad habits. Naturally, the office space was set up to follow the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. As such,...

11 Important Items Your Home Office Need to Prevent Injury

Home Office Ergonomics

You have set up your workstation. In that corner near the window. Under the staircase. The cranny by the bed. The attic. In the kitchen. Or maybe in your garage. You’ve been working from home for a while now. You’ve nailed your home office space. It excites you...

How to avoid wrist pain working from home: Confession of a Physiotherapist

Work from Home Injury Prevention

I can remember it like it was yesterday. Wrist pain working from home. It was 2011. And I had just finished a Master’s programme in Ergonomics. I was at a crossroads. What was I going to do?Silly right, asking that after a post-graduate programme? Truth be told,...