Psychological+and+physical+considerations

Psychological and Physical Considerations




 * Internet addiction AKA internet overuse, pathological computer use or problematic computer use; is when there extensive use of internet that interferes with daily life.

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The primary warning sign of RSI is pain in the upper extremities (fingers, palms, wrists, forearms, shoulders). The pain may be burning, aching, or shooting. It could be local (e.g., fingertips) or diffuse (e.g., the entire forearm). The pain will typically be increased after a long session of computer use. Keep in mind, however, you can have severe RSI without experiencing pain. The following checklist can help you determine whether you have RSI: Do you experience:
 * **RSI**
 * Fatigue or lack of endurance?
 * Weakness in the hands or forearms?
 * Tingling, numbness, or loss of sensation?
 * Heaviness: Do your hands feel like dead weight?
 * Clumsiness: Do you keep dropping things?
 * Lack of strength in your hands? Is it harder to open jars? Cut vegetables?
 * Lack of control or coordination?
 * Chronically cold hands?
 * Heightened awareness? Just being slightly more aware of a body part can be a clue that something is wrong.
 * Hypersensitivity?
 * Frequent self-massage (subconsciously)?
 * Sympathy pains? Do your hands hurt when someone else talks about their hand pain?

In addition to these symptoms, RSI can also lead to behavioral changes. You may not even be aware of these changes. For example, do you:
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Avoid using the injured hand?
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Use your nondominant hand more frequently?
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Use your forearm, feet, or shoulder to open doors?
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Avoid or buying certain kinds of clothing because it is too difficult to put them on?
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Change shopping habits because you can't carry as much as he wants could?
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Keep dropping things?
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Find you can't chop food?
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Not play sports you once enjoyed?
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Having trouble putting on jewelry?
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Not wear bracelets because your wrists are tender?
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Have trouble with keys or brushing teeth?
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Feel overly protective of your hands?

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Solution? [] ergonomics.org || The International Ergonomics Association has adopted this technical definition: ergonomics (or [|human factors]) is the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a system. "Ergonomics is the science of making things comfy"

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