Not just a middle-age issue, ergonomics affects students
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I'm in pain while I'm talking to Alan Hedge, but it's OK -- he's a professor of ergonomics at Cornell, and he knows about pain.
Hedge is talking about the subtle sort of pain you feel from sitting too long in one place, doing one activity, with bad posture.
If only he could see me.
Cradling the phone between my ear and shoulder, pain is shooting through my neck and back -- "--in terms of musculoskeletal injuries the latency period is five to 10 years--" My wrists are sore from typing all day in the contorted position I was forced into by the arrangement of my...
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