As the coronavirus outcomes, many offices orders staff to work from home. Because of this, many are spending most of the day sitting in front of a laptop. Therefore, few of them facing problems like neck and waist pain.
Experts say that working at home or working in bed at home is not good at all. Working with a laptop on a bed can have a negative impact on your body. Experts address that not just laptops, but reading books in bed is not a good thing. Because if you work in bed, there is nothing to support the backbone. Many may do it with a pillow, but it is not effective for the body.
While working on the bed, some of them, unknowingly, lean forward, causing problems with the spine or vertebrae. At first you may only feel neck pain, waist pain, but later on it will cause slipped discs. In addition, working in bed can cause sleep problems.
Experts also say that if you doing this in bed, there is no difference between sleep and work time. We do what the brain does to us. Sleep is directly linked to the bed. Because of this, both sleep and work are disturbed when working in bed.
What to do?
Many people have to work in bed because there is no other arrangement at home. On such cases, experts advised to follow few things as below:
- If you have to work in bed, then arrange proper back support for that.
- The laptop should be lifted from the bed and brought to the face of your eye. So that you do not have to work at a leash.
- Sit straight and work. Maintain that the head and neck area on the same plane.
- Do not sit in the same position for too long. Take a short break between work and walk for 5 minutes. In addition, if you sit at home all day, exercise lightly for half an hour in the morning and evening.
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