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Originally Posted by Greenguy
 I HAVE A QUESTION! 
Do your forearms rest on anything when you type? I ask because it's always been advised to me - both by my primary & my chiropractor - that your arms should rest on something when you're typing. Mine rest on the arms of my chair - and so far so good <knock on wood> |
I CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION! 
Actually that was one of the reasons I made some of the changes I mentioned to the "custom design" I'm using. You can see what I mean in these pics...
On the left is version 1.0 from when I first threw something together to give this a test. In that version there was absolutely no support for my hands, palms or forearms. And you're right, that's not good.
On the right you can see how it's configured today. I spun the old roll-around desk so the other side was facing me. Then I put a big empty box on the main desk surface, which serves to raise the keyboard and mouse surface so it's just below the height of my elbows when I'm standing there. Monitor is still on a stack of thin art books (added two more to raise it a little). Notebook sits on another box.
Now regarding the support for my arms, I do tend to rest my forearms on the surface to the left and right of the keyboard if I'm just reading. When typing, the keyboard is at the back edge of the surface and the palms of my hands rest on the surface, very much like how they do when I'm using my notebook on the couch
When I sat down most of the day, my arms were always fully-supported by the top of my desk. They rarely did more than reach a few inches to get something, or did very little as I typed. Now that I'm standing up most of the day, I find that my arms are in motion a lot more. Rarely do they get to just rest on a desk doing nothing.
If this keeps up (weight loss, feeling better in general), I'll be looking into a more permanent version. But this modular "boxes and books" approach let's me get the specs down so I can order or have made exactly works best for me.
Any other questions, just shout through your megaphone.
