Optimize your performance and prevent computer-related injuries with
Healthy Computing Email Tips. Each week we provide hints to help you stay
healthier while working.
For a free ergonomic assessment of your SFSU workstation by an Ergonomic Safety Program coach, please contact: Environmental Health and Occupational Safety at 338-1449.
Immobility is one of the major contributors to discomfort at the computer as well as increased weight gain. People who unknowingly wiggle and move often tend to be less at risk for obesity and illness. Practice wiggling and moving through out the day to avoid immobility and chronic low level tension. Do the following movement to reduce immobility and tightness and observe how there is a link between your hand and your foot. Practice interrupting habitual tension patterns when you make CIRCLES AND SIXES.
HOW TO MAKE CIRCLES AND SIXES:
- While sitting at your desk, lift your RIGHT foot off the floor and
make CLOCKWISE circles.
- Now, while doing this, draw the number '6' in the air with your
right hand. Observe how your foot changes direction!
- Even as you try to continue the clockwise rotation, the moment you
begin writing a 6 with your right hand, your foot will change
directions and you are probably holding your breath!
- Repeat the same activity with your left foot and hand.
- Explore ways to break apart the automatic connection between hand
and foot while you continue to breathe.