So today, we wanted to just touch on a few different areas regarding the different work positions from the home, whether that be sitting on the couch or an easy chair, dining room table, kitchen table laying on the couch. And we just wanted to kind of review each one and see if we can make some recommendations to try to ease some of the stress on the body while you're performing the work from home. This is the typical position that the majority of people that are working from home are in when they're in the front room. And the issues here are that she's sitting more towards the front of the chair. There's no lower back support. The middle and upper back and shoulders are routing forward and the neck and head are more in a flex position while the computer is out in front of her and her arms are extended away from her body.

So what we have done here is we've taken the position and improved it by moving our back into the chair, adding a pillow behind the lower back to increase the lumbar curve, raise the computer to keep the head out of a sustained flexion, and to improve the angle of the wrist and forearms. Now, this is not a perfect position.

It's much improved over the position that the majority of the at-home front room and couch and easy chair workers are using another situation, working here from the kitchen at the island again sitting forward in the chair, no lower back support for the lumbar spine, head and neck, a little bit more in the flex position and the upper back and shoulders rolled forward with the arms extended out and the feet not supported. An improved position for sitting in the kitchen. The rear end is more back into the chair. There's a pillow behind the lower back for lumbar support. The feet are both supported by the bottom of the chair. The computer has been elevated, trying to minimize the forward positioning of the head and neck, as well as the punching of the upper back and shoulders.

Again, with this change of position, the benefits do outweigh the issue that the arm positioning still is not perfect, but much improved as we're working at home and altering rooms and altering positions throughout the day.

Another position that many people are finding themselves in is trying to find something at home to make a standing desk, whether it's the kitchen table or the dining room table or here the island in the kitchen. And our issue here is the positioning of the head and neck again, morna and a sustained flexion position, lower back flexed and the upper back more in a forward flexed hunching position. And the arms are more extended out away from the body.

And as you can see here, we have improved upon the at home standing desk positioning by raising the computer and the computer screen, trying to put the palms and wrists and elbows at more of a ninety-degree position, as well as trying to keep the upper back head and neck out of a sustained flexion position, trying to have her use a little bit more eye positioning at this point as compared to flexion of the head and neck.

Another option for working at home is working from the kitchen at the kitchen table. And in this position, though, you can see there's no pause, no support for the lower back as the rear ends moved forward in the chair, causing the lumbar spine to flatten the upper back, to increase the curvature in a flexed position that causing the shoulders, head, and neck to roll forward into more of a flex position with the arms extended forward away from the body to work on the computer and the feet not flat on the floor, but tucked underneath.

And in this situation here, we have her sitting as far back in the chair as possible. We have the pillow again for the lumbar support. We've elevated the computer along with a computer screen, trying to keep the upper back shoulders, head, and neck more in an upright, neutral position. Another variation to the at-home office is the option of using an exercise ball at the kitchen table or at the dining room table. And in this case, also, we've had to elevate the computer with a book trying to achieve a little bit more of a neutral neck and head position. An exercise ball, due to the fact that there is no back support, requires a lower back and core to stabilize the body in the process of setting.

And an additional benefit to using the exercise ball is that both feet remain flat on the floor.