I’ve been shrimping for decades with minimal back pain so I think I’m doing something right.
Weird. Here™ (swiss), we learned that always looking down (phone) is bad for posture.
Btw, screen top should be at least eye level.
bottom one totally me basically every night.
Til some people still use 15 inch screens.
If you’re going through the trouble of plugging a keyboard into your laptop, you might as well add a proper screen.
The first picture is only wrong because their posture is horrible. I’ve tried every possible screen height, and eye level works best as long as you sit up straight.
I got a monitor stand to put my monitor such that the middle of the screen was level with my eyes. Made my neck hurt worse. It needs to be a bit below eye level.
I had been doing this also, but it is wrlng. My physio told me you’re meant to be eye level with the TOP of the monitor not the middle, such that your neck is straight but your eyes are fixed slightly down.
Both images in the graphic are wrong.
Wouldn’t that make sense from an evolutionary perspective? Through human history and prehistory, think of all the common tasks people did on a day-to-day basis. I would say the vast majority of them would involve looking at things below eye level. With the exception of picking fruit from trees or hunting birds in flight, most of the tasks we evolved to do involved looking at things below eye level. Most work with crops involves looking at things below the height of your eyes. Tracking prey involves looking at things below the line of the horizon or tracks on the ground. Crafting objects involves working with your hands and looking down at your work. Raising children involves looking down at their shorter stature.
Why wouldn’t our back and neck structure be evolutionarily optimized to look at things a bit below eye level?
Is your posture correct? The usual ergonomic advice is to have the top of the screen level with your eyes, but I’ve found that to be less comfortable for me. I look all over the screen, but most often at the middle, so I want that level with my eyes. I don’t think that looking down all day is great for posture.
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I sit close to the bottom one. Apparently, a coping mechanism of undiagnosed ADHD, now diagnosed but hard to break the habit.
So in the office I sit kind of like the bottom image but my feet are in the seat. Maybe one sole down and the other foot I’m sat on.
At home my lower back is on the seat and my legs are on my bed.
Wait, you’re meant to be looking down? I was always told my eyes should line up with the top of my screen.
Yes, level with the top of the screen, so you’re looking slightly down.
In the graphic the screen is way too.
It’s probably just as important though that the screen is in front of you, so you’re not constantly looking to the same side.
Also, slouching every once in a while is actually better than keeping the same “correct” posture for 8 hours straight. We’re built to move.
Don’t slouch, go walk around
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Old people (I’m not even old yet) who used to sit like the below picture and have incapacitating back pain when they sit wrong now.
From what I understood it’s mostly about changing positions all the time. Any static position will cause discomfort if held for too long.
The bottom illustration is surprisingly accurate.
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Isn’t lumbar support just a bit of marketing that Herman Miller made up in the 90s and that those kneeling chairs are actually the best ways to sit for long periods of time?
I understood that it is comfortable, but not good for posture, as it weakens the muscles by disuse, whereas kneeling chairs do the opposite.
I have no sources to substantiate this.
Usually it isn’t this bad, but yeah, it’s me.
