Essay On Preventing Musculoskeletal Disorders

Do you, like many others; slouch when working at a desk, or experience pain or discomfort after getting up? Do you work many hours at a table or a computer screen? You are not alone. In fact many people have this sedentary lifestyle, usually because of the job they have, students, especially college students, or just choose to sit all day at home. Well, we probably have not noticed this but we generally don’t even know that we are causing harm to our body’s musculature by creating habitual sitting positions. Musculoskeletal disorders generally develop from long-term improper body mechanics. Musculoskeletal disorders are also the very common in areas like the workplace. But we can all do something to prevent musculoskeletal disorders. In this research paper I used a faculty member that currently works at South Piedmont Community College to …show more content…
Carpal tunnel syndrome is the compression of the medial nerve, which is very common in those who use a keyboard and a mouse. When typing, finger should be in line with the forearms, not resting on the table. Use a gel keyboard pad, or even something like a towel. A way that we can prevent it from getting any worse is to use a keyboard pad, making sure that the desk is not too high for you, and not causing you to have your wrists completely rest flat on the desk in a prolonged extended position which would cause compression to the median nerve. Adjust the tension of the keys so they can be depressed without excessive force. You could also try to keep the keyboard closer to your body so that there is less movement in the shoulders and no leaning over. And stretching the wrists back and forth would always be a good idea because that way it helps loosen up the wrist and therefore would relax the wrist and you would be less likely to feel any compression in your