Heard a podcast where an ergonomics specialist said most desk setups are too high by at least 2 inches

That guy claimed 70% of people with wrist pain just need to drop their desk surface or raise their chair, so I measured mine last night and yep, my elbow angle was way off, has anyone else dealt with that after adjusting?

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simon_chen2d ago

my elbow angle was way off" - yeah thats the thing nobody realizes until they actually measure. its like how people buy $2000 mattresses for back pain but their pillow is literally from 2015. our whole lives are just a series of mismatched angles. desk height, car seat distance from pedals, even how high your toilet paper roll is. i swear half the problems we have are just geometry failures we refuse to fix because it would mean admitting something is slightly wrong.

taylor_barnes592d ago

Right? "Mismatched angles" is the perfect way to put it. I had this cheap Ikea chair for years and could never figure out why my shoulders were always tight. Finally measured my armrest height against my desk and realized I was basically shrugging for 8 hours a day. Same with my rearview mirror - had it pointed at the sky for months before my buddy pointed out I was looking at the moon the whole time. We just accept stuff as normal until someone shows us the tape measure.