1. Get your screen set up right
Make sure the top of the screen you use is at eye level. Raise it onto a flat top printer, books or a laptop holder so you aren’t slouching to read the screen. Sit your bottom right back in your seat so that your lower back is supported by the chair back rest. Your computer screen should be an arm’s length away from you.
2. Protect your shoulders and wrists
Try to use a separate keyboard and mouse when using a laptop. Position your keyboard close enough to keep wrists relaxed and straight and your elbow is bent at about a 90 degree angle
3. Don’t slump on the sofa
Avoid at all costs slumping on the sofa especially with your legs up when using iPads and laptops. This causes a lot of stress on the lower back and neck
4. Home set up for sitting
If you don’t have access to an office chair, adapt a kitchen chair by adding a cushion for height. Roll a towel up to make a lumbar support and place this horizontally in the small of your low back.
5. Support your feet
Supporting your feet helps you stay upright. Put your feet flat on the floor with your knees bent at a 90-100-degree angle.
6. Sharing desks and chairs at work
If you Share a desk with someone much taller or shorter than you, remember to adjust the screen, chair height and if needed bring a cushion to the office to support you back.
7. Listen to your body
Aches and pain are not a signal that you have damaged your body. It is usually just the body’s way of telling you to move from the posture you are in and try another one.
7. Keep moving
Have activity breaks every half hour for 1-2 minutes to avoid tension building up. Set reminders on your phone. Walk around when on the phone and walk up and down the stairs. Do some streches reaching your arms up towards the sky and some side bends.
9. Try standing for a while
Raise your work area using a pile of books on your kitchen work top, ironing board or tall chest of drawers, and stand for a while. We’ve had to ban my husband from working by the kitchen worktop as this was too near the fridge and toaster
10. Take some exercise
Take time away from your desk to take one hour of exercise per day outside where possible. Try not to eat at your desk whilst working.