Tingling in your thumb, index and middle fingers at 2am. Shaking your hands to wake them up as part of your morning routine since…you can’t remember when. That dull ache at the base of your thumb. If any of that sounds familiar, your wrists may be trying to tell you something. Before you buy the "ergonomic" mouse everyone on the internet swears by, let's talk about what's actually happening there, and what may help. There is very little space in the carpal tunnel The carpal t

When most people hear "ergonomics," they picture a chair, a keyboard, maybe a monitor arm. What they don't picture is their brain. But your brain is doing physical work all day too, and the environment you've built around it is either helping that work happen or quietly fighting it. This is the ergonomics of thinking, the part almost nobody talks about, and it might be the piece that explains why you can have a perfectly set up desk and still end most days feeling wrung out.

Let me guess. Your back has been "a bit sore" for longer than you can remember. You've written it off as part of getting older, or maybe that weekend you overdid it in the garden three years ago. You've tried stretching. Exercise. Massage. Ignoring it. And yet, it's still there. Here's what I want you to consider before you get a new chair - it may actually not be the chair, but your position in your chair, which may be very fixable. What Gravity Is Actually Doing to Your S