{"id":961,"date":"2017-04-11T16:23:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cardinus.com\/us\/?p=961"},"modified":"2022-08-05T09:57:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T13:57:48","slug":"bitten-bytes-computer-pain-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cardinus.com\/us\/insights\/ergonomics\/bitten-by-bytes-computer-pain-is-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitten by Bytes, Computer Pain is Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What could those little pains and aches be that we feel when working with computers? Ian Chong is here to explain what it means when you\u2019ve been bitten by bytes<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>So You Think You Know Pain?<\/h2>\n<p>Do you know what it really feels like to experience high-level debilitating computer pain and associated frustration? Have you been \u201cbitten by bytes\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Many computer users do!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever felt like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your wrists have a spike driven through them?<\/li>\n<li>Your fingers are squeezed in a vice?<\/li>\n<li>Your hands are dipped in alcohol and set on fire?<\/li>\n<li>Your elbow got hit with a baseball bat?<\/li>\n<li>Your back just had a knife pushed into it?<\/li>\n<li>Your neck just met with a karate chop?<\/li>\n<li>Your shoulder had an anvil dropped on it?<\/li>\n<li>Your eyeballs are sizzling in a frying pan?<\/li>\n<li>Your derri\u00e8re is sitting on a cactus spiked with poison ivy?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Do you feel something gnawing at your flesh causing all these maladies?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That gnawing is you. Yes, you yourself. You are directly responsible for allowing these disorders that attack your anatomy, causing ongoing disruption, pain, frustration and down time. It\u2019s not because of using a keyboard, mouse, stick or whatever. It\u2019s from not paying attention to your health and especially your pain.<\/p>\n<p>These insidious results are injures from everyday use of computer devices, all of which could get seriously worse if unattended.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hard to believe, is it not?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You see, all these pains and symptoms affecting your well-being, getting in the way of your work, pleasure, every day activities, are the result simply of your inaction.<\/p>\n<p>Pain is a message to your brain from your body. Are you listening?<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, your attention is mostly directed elsewhere to work on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Getting that database done<\/li>\n<li>Finishing that report<\/li>\n<li>Completing that spreadsheet<\/li>\n<li>Polishing up that digital graphic<\/li>\n<li>Finalizing that design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your attention is also on playing to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Getting to the next level<\/li>\n<li>Shooting that alien<\/li>\n<li>Beating the Mario Brothers<\/li>\n<li>Texting your BFF<\/li>\n<li>Scanning that Facebook<\/li>\n<li>Snuffing those Twitter flames<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Almost every waking moment you interact with a computer, a peripheral, device or attachment.\u00a0 Your office ergonomics transcends into personal ergonomics.<\/p>\n<p>It is not only the desktop or laptop affecting you.\u00a0 It is also the multitude of other devices to which humans are becoming addicted.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mobile phones<\/li>\n<li>Tablets<\/li>\n<li>E-readers<\/li>\n<li>Gaming devices<\/li>\n<li>MP3 players<\/li>\n<li>Remote controllers<\/li>\n<li>Electronic toys<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, the allure of these devices is all around us, hypnotic and enticing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Currently about 3 billion computers exist in the world.\u00a0 It is estimated they will soon outnumber the human population and even now many are severely attached to a computer device in some form 24\/7, even sleeping with phones as these have moved from the nightstand to the bed.\u00a0 Truly, humankind is becoming inseparable from these machines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many cannot do without them for even a moment, as these devices replace:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dinner table conversation<\/li>\n<li>Face-to-face social interactions<\/li>\n<li>Social graces and manners<\/li>\n<li>Needs to see other humans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Entwined in both our professional and personal lives, these have become a constant companion, a friend, a conversationalist, a playmate, and a distraction, one we can access at a moment\u2019s notice.\u00a0 And how do we use the fantastic devices? These things that can show us the universe, that can perform amazing feats and take our imaginations to untold levels?<\/p>\n<p>We adopt bad postures and pain-inducing positions of hands, arms, shoulders and backs.\u00a0 Our children use continual bent thumbs, rounded shoulders and bent necks as they incessantly work their smart phones and tablets.<\/p>\n<p>By doing this, we inadvertently damage ourselves, we invite these painful episodes.\u00a0 We invite the potential to be debilitated in our aging process.\u00a0 We go faster, faster, faster for longer, longer, longer and our bodies pay the price.<\/p>\n<p>Are you reading this now on a mobile phone with a bent over neck posture?\u00a0 Are you reading this on your computer, sitting on the front edge of your chair hunched over or slouched without any back support?<\/p>\n<p>Do you feel a twinge in your neck right now?\u00a0 Or perhaps in your fingers or in your rounded shoulders as you mouse?<\/p>\n<p>These are warnings, which if left unchecked, will get worse, much worse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardinus.com\/us\/global-ergonomics-solutions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1027 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cardinus.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cardinus_healthy_working_us_1_blog_banner.jpg\" alt=\"Office Ergonomics Assessment Software\" width=\"883\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cardinus.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cardinus_healthy_working_us_1_blog_banner.jpg 883w, https:\/\/www.cardinus.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cardinus_healthy_working_us_1_blog_banner-768x210.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 883px) 100vw, 883px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Understand, these pain elements and gnawing also take place even when we are not connected to these devices. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you feel a twinge here or there when you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open a jar?<\/li>\n<li>Hold a gallon of milk?<\/li>\n<li>Button your shirt<\/li>\n<li>Pick up your new born child?<\/li>\n<li>Carry a bag of groceries?<\/li>\n<li>Brush your hair?<\/li>\n<li>Turn a doorknob?<\/li>\n<li>Work in the garden?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you feel these aches when performing any other innocent task or chore?<\/p>\n<p>These unconsciously triggered twinges or pain symptoms are the residue of our recent interaction with computer devices.<\/p>\n<p>Understand, these twinges and injuries occur when we are both in session with computer devices and when we are away from them.<\/p>\n<p>We cannot escape their influence and should make conscientious effort to mount a rigorous defense against such peril.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we are killing ourselves and soon these machines will eat us up, literally and figuratively.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we should call all these little innocuous computer injury events\u2026 bites, caused by \u201dBiters\u201d, more appropriately spelled BYTR.<\/p>\n<p>The name obviously fits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, what\u2019s the name of your computer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/us\/resources\/stand-up-for-your-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1026 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cardinus.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cardinus_us_magazine_blog_banner.jpg\" alt=\"Ergonomic Risk Magazine\" width=\"883\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cardinus.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cardinus_us_magazine_blog_banner.jpg 883w, https:\/\/www.cardinus.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cardinus_us_magazine_blog_banner-768x210.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 883px) 100vw, 883px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article featured in our Fall\/Winter 2016 edition of Cardinus Connect, the magazine for the ergonomics professional. <a href=\"\/us\/resources\/pokemon-k-o\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download your free copy here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking for a solution to beat those bytes? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardinus.com\/us\/global-ergonomics-solutions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Take a look at Healthy Working<\/a>, it&#8217;s our best-selling ergonomics software that helps to reduce ergonomics risk and teaches employees to proactively combat those little aches and pains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What could those little pains and aches be that we feel when working with computers? 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