Preventing and Managing Computer Related Injuries

Key Features

VHS or DVD video: 27 minutes (2001)
Includes 39-page guidebook.
Produced in association with Stanford University Media Solutions.

In this video, the experts at Stanford pinpoint the causes and explain prevention strategies for computer-related traumas. Following these ergonomic principles will minimize aches and strains and increase productivity.

Program highlights:

• Explains what a CTD is, and risk factors that can be controlled.
• Seven hints to make your chair more comfortable;
  eight suggestions for maintaining keyboard comfort;
  five recommendations for proper monitor placement.
• Six exercises that can help protect the hands, wrists and forearms; nine exercises for the neck and shoulders; and four exercises for the eyes.

In the short time that personal computers have revolutionized how we work, office-related discomfort and injuries have skyrocketed. We do things differently than we used to--we're sedentary in an office or at a desk all day long. We're often working at a computer, doing the same thing over and over again.

Featuring:

Leo Keoshian, MD, (Ret.)
Stanford Department of Functional Rehabilitation

Amy Ladd, MD
Hand Surgeon, Stanford University School of Medicine