[aklug] Re: Monitor Cradle?

Monitor height, desk height, chair height, keyboard height = all tend to be
part of the equation.

My answer is a standing desk paired with a seated desk. L-configuration.

My ideal solution would be to have a 2nd monitor on the seated desk and use
a wireless keyboard & mouse. That would be sweet.

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:

> * B Everitt <everittak@gmail.com> [130307 11:53]:
> > With all my dealings with 'ergo' folks and my own pain from PC use,
> > I've never found that lowering the monitor is the answer. Unless of
> > course the monitor is up unusually high. Not knowing any better, I'd
> > bet the monitor is ok, but the keyboard is more the culprit. Shoulder
> > angle and posture due to a poor chair can really effect the neck. My
> > .02.
> My wife is a physical therapist and she is convinced that is the
> problem, and her physician is in agreement. And X-rays support the
> conclusions that both have arrived at.
>
> Having said that, she is using an old microtek 815C, which she
> really likes, but it has the old-style, square configuration
> (rather than wide-screen). I've a wide-screen LG which sits a lot
> lower, has more 'real estate' and I think that if she changes to
> something like my LG, she would be better off. If we can't find
> such a cradle, we will just swap for a lower profile wide-screen
> monitor. I'm sure that will be an acceptable solution for her.
>
> thanks
> --
> Tim
> tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
> http://www.akwebsoft.com
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Received on Thu Mar 7 14:18:15 2013