Backing off back pains

The first casualty of our writing is our back. Sitting with our hands busy abusing the keyboard with bursts of inspiration implies our back gets precious few movements and is mainly static. This lack of movement is compounded by muscles strain on some specific muscles and lack of exercise for others, creating an imbalance that might degenerate into backaches.

 There are a few preventive measures that will limit or completely prevent the damages.

 First is ensuring an ergonomic work station. So what are the characteristics of an ergonomic work station?

It implies that when sitting down upright with your hands at the ready on the keyboard:

• The feet are flat on the floor with knees are bent at a right angle
• The wrists are supported and your elbows are bent at a right angle
• The screen is parallel to eyesight

Second is taking stretching breaks at least every 90 minutes.

 Third is keeping the room at a comfortable temperature, as a cold room might generate muscles spasms.

 Then, of course, there is taking regular exercise and eating a balanced diet.

 When unfortunately this did not entirely prevent our back from interfering with our writing by sending waves of pain, there are a few things we can do to relieve the pain.

 As this site is run by writers and not by health specialists, we selected this website that has a lot of free videos for back exercises as well as preventive techniques.

http://www.losethebackpain.com/backpainvideos.html.

So, let’s ensure that the back pains are backing off and on with writing.

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