hexadecimal » Health http://blog.hexadecimal.se Being creative in the digital age Fri, 07 May 2010 12:06:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Avoiding the occupational hazards of being a programmer http://blog.hexadecimal.se/2009/04/02/avoiding-the-occupational-hazards-of-being-a-programmer/ http://blog.hexadecimal.se/2009/04/02/avoiding-the-occupational-hazards-of-being-a-programmer/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:51:19 +0000 q http://www.hexadecimal.se/2009/04/02/AvoidingTheOccupationalHazardsOfBeingAProgrammer.aspx While browsing Boing Boing today (which is also where I got the inspiration to make this blog theme), I ran into this nifty video which shows some very useful exercises that can help to avoid some of the occupational hazards of being a programmer, such as mouse-arm, keyboard-wrist, coffee-mug-finger (finger stuck in a permanent curve from holding a coffee-cup all day long) and soda-can-grip (same as coffee-mug-finger, except it afflicts the whole hand from holding onto a can of Coke or Jolt Cola).

It will unfortunately not help with the more common afflictions, such as office-chair adapted physique, meeting-room narcolepsy (repeatedly nodding off  whenever you are in a meeting room) and internet abstinence. (I’m still working on those).

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