Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: work-from-home jobs’ #1 enemy.
by: Christine Zafra
Have you heard of the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? Maybe you have received lots of emails about it but disregarded it, telling yourself that it’s nothing but a fib. Unfortunately, for the non-believers, science has already proven that this syndrome exists and targets the people who spend most of their time in front of the computer.
So, what is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) and how can you avoid it? Every time you use the mouse or keyboard of your computer, you lay down your wrists flat on the surface. The median nerve is sandwiched between transverse carpal ligament and some of your wrist bones. Now what happens is that, whenever you lay your wrist flat, your median nerve is being “squashed†by these two.
What you can do to avoid this is do some exercise. Flex your wrist from time to time. You can bend it backwards (towards you, but not too much!), and straighten it after or perhaps you can devise other non-straining exercises for your wrist. You wouldn’t want to develop this kind of syndrome, do you?
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