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Subject:Re: Productivity and terminal fatigue From:Beverly Parks <bparks -at- HUACHUCA-EMH1 -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Mon, 13 Mar 1995 13:12:43 MST
Tracie Speer wrote--
... Do many of you suffer from fatigue and headaches after
long stretches in front of the terminal? How do you relieve
the negative consequences of interfacing with a computer?
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I have one vertebra at the base of my neck that causes
excruciating pain after sitting in front of the screen for a
prolonged period.
Also, I've noticed just since becoming active on these Lists
(thus spending even *more* time in front of the screen) the skin
around my eyes (i.e., above my eyelids) has been drying out. I
wonder if there is a correlation?
For my neck, I do various neck exercises. For my skin, I use
lotion. Both are merely masking the symptoms IMO.
The neck deal is probably a posture problem. As for the skin, I
just read earlier today that using a grounded, conductive mesh
glare screen may help that problem.
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