Comfort at Your Computer: Body Awareness Training for Pain-Free Computer Use
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Product Description
"[Comfort at Your Computer] is an excellent resource for anyone who uses a computer. True to its title, the book shows the reader in clear and easy to understand steps how to use a computer in comfort. Dr. Linden adroitly synthesizes knowledge from his physical education background...This is an excellent book for people at risk for computer stress and for the clinicians who treat them. It functions both as a resources book and as a self-help text. It should also be of interest to companies whose workers use computers."
-Physical Therapy, December 1996
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #659353 in Books
- Published on: 2000-04-10
- Released on: 2000-04-10
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 8.90" h x .80" w x 5.90" l, 1.11 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 328 pages
Editorial Reviews
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Full of practical, simple exercises and techniques for preventing physical and mental stress at the computer, this book gives readers what they need to know about the functioning of the human body to achieve relaxed, efficient, strain-free, safe-and comfortable ways of using their computers. It shows how to choose equipment which will maintain and enhance proper body use and how to set up a workstation for greater comfort.
About the Author
Paul Linden is a specialist in body and movement awareness education and the director of the Columbus Center for Movement Studies in Columbus, Ohio. Linden is an instructor of the Feldenkrais Method of somatic education, and holds a fourth degree black belt in Aikido as well as a first degree black belt in Karate. Over the past twenty-five years he has developed a systematic approach to body movement and awareness teaching which he calls Being in Movement mind/body training.
