Reducing Your Child's Risk of Computer Vision Syndrome and Ergonomics Problems

To reduce your youngster's risk of childhood computer vision syndrome and computer ergonomics problems, make sure he or she is seated comfortably and has a "neutral" posture when working at the computer. Characteristics of this posture include:

Too much unsupervised computer work may cause vision problems for kids.

• Head is balanced on neck, not tilted back or forward. Computer screen should be positioned approximately 15 degrees below eye level.
• Back is straight and shoulders back but relaxed. Avoid slumping forward over the keyboard.
• Upper arms are close to the body and relaxed, not angled away from his sides or tilted forward.
• Forearms are flat on the desk, with the elbows forming at least a 90-degree angle.
• Hands are nearly level with forearm, with little wrist bend.
• Feet are flat on the floor or a footrest, with knees forming at least a 90-degree angle. (The angle behind the knee should be open; don't tuck legs under the chair.)

Many experts also recommend getting away from the computer every 20 to 30 minutes to stand and stretch. This helps relieve muscle tension that can contribute to computer vision problems and computer ergonomics problems.

Website: http://www.allaboutvision.com/parents/children-computer-vision-syndrome.htm

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Ergonomics…… Ergonomics is a discipline that involves arranging the environment to fit the person in it. Ergonomics is very important because if neglecting ergonomics might cause long term health problems as repetitive-stress injuries and near-sightedness.

Nowadays, parents are very busy with their work. Parents will just leave their child/children to their grandparents or maid to take care. Moreover, Malaysia is getting updates faster compare to other country. So, the parents will allow their child/children play with computer. Parents might not care about their son / daughter because they are busy with working. Slowly the time pass, the children will get addicted to the games or even surfing the net. From that, the child will spend long time on facing the computer. At last, the child will get vision problems and computer ergonomics problem.

We, ourselves do not know about ergonomics until we attend the class, Technology for Young Children. On that day class, the explanations and the notes were really useful to us and bring out a new issue for us to care about which we never think about it before. Therefore, ergonomics is really important for adults as well because there are lots of adults ignoring about this issue. So, we are posting this article so that more people will know about it and apply to themselves.