Comment by wahnfrieden
1 day ago
This is good advice. I’d stress that having the screen up high is usually overlooked. People think of different heights when they hear this because it’s very rare to see examples of anyone having their screen actually near eye line, and most monitor arms / laptop trays won’t even go high enough.
I’d also add that having a more extreme tilt, beyond what “tenting” can provide (so, needing mounting), can also make a big difference in relieving nerve friction from twisting. Check for example how the Glove80 has a mounting kit.
And I personally found having anything actually on my lap required constant stress to balance it during use including from my hands themselves while typing and counterbalancing… mounting the keyboard halves to my chair arms or using sturdy tripods from the floor with a lounge chair etc helped me tremendously.
> And I personally found having anything actually on my lap required constant stress to balance it during use including from my hands themselves while typing and counterbalancing…
Your anatomy and the height of the chair that is comfortable for you may be conspiring against you being able to put a keyboard on your lap, yeah.
> mounting the keyboard halves to my chair arms or using sturdy tripods from the floor with a lounge chair etc helped me tremendously.
I no longer use a chair. I either use a kneeling chair or a big exercise ball. But when I used chairs I always removed the arm rests because invariably I would rest either my elbows or forearms on the arm rests, and in ways that pressed on the tendons.