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6 Ways that Poor Ergonomics Can Have

Negative Consequences on Your Health
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  / By Irene

6 Ways that Poor Ergonomics Can Have Negative

Consequences on Your Health
One of the most common reasons why ergonomics is ignored, is that we often confuse the
symptoms it causes, with other conditions.

We tend to attribute eye strain to working too many hours; tingling in extremities to conditions
like anxiety; and muscular pain, to accidental injury. While our diagnosis can be right,
sometimes, it is important to understand that these symptoms can also be caused by seemingly
harmless factors like poor lighting, an uncomfortable chair or the repetition of detrimental
movements: in other words, the root of our suffering, is poor ergonomics.

Irene Diamond, RT, Director of Diamond Massage & Wellness Center, can provide expert help
by evaluating your needs, pointing out common errors in the way tasks are carried out, designing
a more ergonomic workspace and teaching you handy exercises that promote a pain-free
existence.

In case you don’t know how poor ergonomics can be

detrimental to your health, we highlight a few of the biggest
problems it can cause:
Poor ergonomics can cause musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs):
These are debilitating, painful conditions affecting muscles, tendons, tendon sheaths and nerves.
One of the most oft-cited MSDs is carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), a condition in which a nerve
within a specific passageway in the wrist is pinched, causing an array of symptoms ranging from
unpleasant to painful. These include numbness, tingling and sharp pain. In serious cases, CTS
can affect mobility and even cause partial paralysis. Another common MSD is tendonitis: the
inflammation or irritation of tendons, often caused by incorrect posture. Tendonitis tends to
occur in injury-prone areas like the wrists, kneecap, elbow and wrist. A closely related injury is
bursitis: the inflammation of the bursa (a sac-like cavity between the bone and tendon, or skin
and bone). Bursitis can cause pain and swelling in the knee, elbow or shoulder. It is tends to arise
from frequent kneeling, repetitive movements of the shoulder and pressure to the elbow.
Poor ergonomics can cause back injuries:
The nature of your profession often determines your risk of suffering from painful back injuries.
Some of the highest risk employees are those working in the healthcare profession. Nurses, for
instance, or those who care for the ill or elderly, tend to bend from the waist continually and lift
or move patients with more weight than their body can bear. Those in the construction sector are
likewise particularly vulnerable, as are those who work in the food sector lifting heavy boxes and
carrying heavy trays. The range of movements that can cause back problems is ample and
includes twisting the waist while lifting items and lifting items from below the knees or over the
shoulders.
Poor ergonomics can affect you in ways you least expect; merely sitting or standing for long
periods of time, for instance, can cause cumulative trauma, as can adopting the wrong posture
while working on your computer.

Poor ergonomics can cause headaches & migraines:

Working for too many hours with the wrong lighting can cause headaches; if the light on your
computer screen or in the room itself is too bright or dim, it can also cause everything from
itching, burning and fatigue in the eyes to seemingly unrelated symptoms like indigestion,
nausea and even blurred or double vision.

Poor posture is a big factor in migraine and headache sufferers due to the mechanical forces that
apply strain or stress to the muscles, fascia, and ligaments in the back and neck, causing active
trigger points in your neck and shoulder to refer pain or symptoms directly to your forehead,
temples, or other parts of your head.

Our director, Irene Diamond, RT can be of great help in this sense because her trained eye and
keen sense of awareness enable her to pinpoint occurrences the general public isn’t able to
identify.

Poor ergonomics can cause a stiff neck:

More often than not, we tend to attribute severe pain in the neck and immobility in the neck area,
to a bad sleeping position; we are often surprised to learn that the cause can commonly be
attributed to actions undertaken during our waking hours. If you keep your neck in a rigid
position for too long, you will more than likely suffer the consequences in your neck area.

Poor ergonomics can cause ‘trigger finger’:

This condition results from the inflammation of tendons and/or the tendon sheaths located in the
fingers. Repetitive movements or using one’s grip too strongly or too often can make it difficult
to move one’s fingers without experiencing sharp pain.

Poor ergonomics can cause ganglion cysts:

Ganglion cysts are very hard, pea- or larger- sized lumps which develop on joints or in tendon
sheaths. They are commonly found on the wrist, the back of the hand or the base of fingers.
Symptoms range from discomfort to pain. Ganglion cysts can come and go, though sometimes,
they remain, causing pain if they pinch a nerve. Sufferers can opt to have a ganglion cyst
removed surgically, yet there is no guarantee that they will not return.
The results of failing to protect yourself or your staff from the consequences of poor ergonomics
can be plentiful and far-reaching; quite simply, most of us do our best to work as comfortably as
we can yet sometimes, our best just isn’t good enough and it takes a skilled eye to identify our
mistakes, make useful suggestions and teach us how to perform movements that will boost our
circulation, strengthen our muscles and allow us to take an active role in our own health and
well-being.

Of course we are available for a no-cost wellness consultation for you or to discuss coming to
your workplace or home-office to see how we can best help you set up your work station to
decrease the negative effects and increase productivity and enjoyment!
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Brett S. Dorfman says April 4, 2018

Hey Irene, first of all i would like to thank you for posting such important information. You are
doing a tremendous job of making people aware about the hazards of ergonomics in such great
detail. I think we can no longer ignore the negative consequences of ergonomics. I would like to
attend your wellness consultation. Keep posting Irene.

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Muhaimin says October 17, 2018

It is a good article crucial for my assignment project “ergonomics on online gamers”. But one
thing is lack is the article do not show date on when it is publish, to put as my references

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Irene says October 17, 2018

Hi Muhaimin,
Glad you found this ergonomic blog post helpful for your project. The date published is
not visible. Can you use the website’s copyright date to cite as a reference?
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Ashley henry says November 16, 2018

Thank u so much for these information i aporeciated ur help with my research this evening ….

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