[Gllug] OT Spinal injuries and computer working positions

[M.Blackmore]

Anyone else got rather bad spinal injuries? I damaged spinal bones in
two places in my late teens (building site mishap) and then was well and
truly whiplashed (ooh err, but not like that, alas).

Now, at 50, I have a lot of trouble indeed with scar tissue and fibrotic
muscles and trapped nerves. Painful and debilitating, sleep disruptive,
and make sitting at a normal desk for any time difficult. There are only
so many painkillers one can take a day and one has to take days off (I'm
on opiates pretty well on demand) to avoid addiction.

Acupunture and professional therapy massage help but only so much money
available now I'm unable to earn an income :-(

To try and get going again, I've been thinking of ideas ranging from
going "Japanese" on the floor with cushions (cross legged relieves the
muscle tension for a while but has its own problems) or a form of
reclining chair.

The problem with both is how to position a screen and get some sort of
an input device into the right place to use (I'm a fast touchtypist).

What sort of solutions have people come up with or seen others do?

This is getting to be a truly disabling problem and I'm unable to do
much nowadays :-( except for bursts of about 15 minutes at a time once
or so an hour.

Nasty.

Perhaps we should form a sub-species - Brokeback Penguins. Or perhaps
that could be misinterpreted... not that I've any problem with anyone's
proclivities of course, but we don't want to leave any hostages to
Microsoft FUD do we? Perhaps I'd better stop this politically incorrect
drift right here... 

See y'all

Malcolm
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