All that weight could add up to chronic pain. But there's an easy fix.
If you like to carry your laptop with one hand, or with the keyboard open, you’re carrying your laptop all wrong, and your body is paying the price.
“Laptops are getting lighter and lighter. But still, that’s like three or four pounds of levered weight on your wrist,” Maloney said. “And so that can lead to a common condition called theAnd if you’re doing that every day, that 6-pound laptop can start to feel like bricks weighing down your body.“If you’re working for eight hours a day, and you’re in between meetings carrying your laptop around, that’s a lot of steps that you’re doing holding the laptop in your wrist,” Maloney said.
But the next important advice is to consider which bag you use. Ergonomics looks at the weight of what you’re carrying and how it is being distributed. And a lot of us can make the mistake of thinking we can stuff our bags with not just a laptop but also heavy books and clothes.
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