Pain Free at Your PC [ebook ed.] 0307489310, 9780307489319

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Pain Free at Your PC [ebook ed.]
 0307489310, 9780307489319

Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
List of Illustrations
One          THE PC — FROM PAINFUL TO PAIN FREE
Blaming the PC and repetitive motion isn’t the answer
Two          MUSCLE MATTERS
The design of the human body is rugged enough to withstand nearly anything—except lack of motion
Three       THE BIG SQUEEZE
Skeletal misalignment hurts with or without a PC
Four         THREE CURVES AND YOU WALK
The spine’s shape determines the shape of your health
Five          FIVE E-CISE PIECES
An introduction to E-cise therapy
Six            E-CISES FOR THOSE IN PAIN
Hurting and in a hurry
Seven       E-CISE MENU FOR OCCASIONAL COMPUTER USERS
A little just-in-time therapy
Eight         E-CISE MENU FOR MODERATE COMPUTER USERS
Ramping up the right way
Nine         E-CISE MENU FOR POWER PC USERS
Wired, worried, and what to do about it
Ten           OTHER SYMPTOMS, OTHER CHOICES
Feeling no pain
Eleven      BREAKING THE PATTERNS OF PAIN
How to avoid being locked in a motionless box
Twelve     JUST THE FAQS
Move your body, not the keyboard or monitor
Thirteen   DESPERATE MEASURES—SURGERY, DRUGS, AND ERGONOMICS—DON’T WORK
A billion dollars of good intentions gone bad
Acknowledgments
Other Books by This Author
About the Authors

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