It is a known fact now that frequent computer use leads to the decrease in the strength of muscles and that eventually leads to problems that affect the whole body. Some part of the body is getting over utilized and strained, while other parts of the body weakens due to inactivity. They are collectively being called as Repetitive Strain Injury.
The parts of the body that gets mostly affected are:
1. Eyes
As you know, constantly glaring at that monitor for hours cause severe strain on the eyes. Eyes are designed to focus at different lengths and each time when you blink, it cleanses the eye. While in-front of computer, we often forget to blink and to look at different focal lengths.
This causes, reddishness in the eyes, Headache and eventually makes your eye loose its abilities. You will have to start using glasses to reduce the strain and to protect your vision.
2. Spine
Our spice is one of the most important element of our bone structure. It is designed to be flexible and muscles supports the whole spinal structure. Hours of inactivity makes the muscles weak and you will eventually starts to have lower back pains and even Disk prolapses, which is getting more and more common among Computer users.
3. Hand/Fingers/Legs:
Mind you, that all these body parts were designed to do a lot of activity and this is how our body has been evolved over the past hundreds of years. Now, suddenly, there were thrown in to idleness. When added with the scenario that they were being used at uneven and unsuitable postures, the blood flow gets affected and there are cases when the users had to amputate the body parts.
Prevention:
You might have heard the expression "Prevention is better than Cure". You won't know how significant and important this is, until you get affected in any way by any of the problems mentioned above.
Below are the items that i know, to prevent the above problems from happening.
1. Do regular exercises. No matter how busy your schedule is, find time to spend some time for walking/jogging. This will help to maintain the blood pressure and sugar levels in check.
2. Try to stay away from computers during the weekend, whenever possible. At least, try to reduce the time that you spend in accessing the computers, during the weekend.
3. During the computer usage, install plugins like eyeCare, that can remind you to take break at regular intervals. This will be good for your eyes to protect your vision using 20-20-20 rule, and for your whole body, based on how you configure it.
This extension is available for Chrome at:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eeeningnfkaonkonalpcicgemnnijjhn
Start these steps as soon as possible. Now, you might be fit to ignore these tips. But, that doesn't mean that you are not susceptible to tear and wear. And know this, "All the wealth you have is insignificant, if you don't have the health to enjoy what you have earned".
If you want to know more, refer wikipedia article. If you know any other tips to keep ourselves healthy, let us know in comments.
The parts of the body that gets mostly affected are:
1. Eyes
As you know, constantly glaring at that monitor for hours cause severe strain on the eyes. Eyes are designed to focus at different lengths and each time when you blink, it cleanses the eye. While in-front of computer, we often forget to blink and to look at different focal lengths.
This causes, reddishness in the eyes, Headache and eventually makes your eye loose its abilities. You will have to start using glasses to reduce the strain and to protect your vision.
2. Spine
Our spice is one of the most important element of our bone structure. It is designed to be flexible and muscles supports the whole spinal structure. Hours of inactivity makes the muscles weak and you will eventually starts to have lower back pains and even Disk prolapses, which is getting more and more common among Computer users.
3. Hand/Fingers/Legs:
Mind you, that all these body parts were designed to do a lot of activity and this is how our body has been evolved over the past hundreds of years. Now, suddenly, there were thrown in to idleness. When added with the scenario that they were being used at uneven and unsuitable postures, the blood flow gets affected and there are cases when the users had to amputate the body parts.
Prevention:
You might have heard the expression "Prevention is better than Cure". You won't know how significant and important this is, until you get affected in any way by any of the problems mentioned above.
Below are the items that i know, to prevent the above problems from happening.
1. Do regular exercises. No matter how busy your schedule is, find time to spend some time for walking/jogging. This will help to maintain the blood pressure and sugar levels in check.
2. Try to stay away from computers during the weekend, whenever possible. At least, try to reduce the time that you spend in accessing the computers, during the weekend.
3. During the computer usage, install plugins like eyeCare, that can remind you to take break at regular intervals. This will be good for your eyes to protect your vision using 20-20-20 rule, and for your whole body, based on how you configure it.
This extension is available for Chrome at:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eeeningnfkaonkonalpcicgemnnijjhn
Start these steps as soon as possible. Now, you might be fit to ignore these tips. But, that doesn't mean that you are not susceptible to tear and wear. And know this, "All the wealth you have is insignificant, if you don't have the health to enjoy what you have earned".
If you want to know more, refer wikipedia article. If you know any other tips to keep ourselves healthy, let us know in comments.
