Yeow! Get The Computer Off Me!


Nintendo Thumb, Cell Phone Elbow, Guitar Hero Wrist. Technology, it seems, is out to cripple. What next? Well, it appears that more and more often we're either falling over our equipment or it's falling on us. According to American Journal of Preventive Medicine, an increasing number of Americans have wound up in emergency rooms after crashing with computers. "From 1994 to 2006, injuries caused by people tripping over computer wires or getting hit by falling equipment rose from about 1,300 a year to 9,300 a year, an increase of 732 percent nationwide."
Complete Live Science article
here.
Original American Journal of Preventive Medicine report
here.

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