by Peter G. Hanson, M.D. | Dec 26, 2013 | Ergonomics, Exercise, Health
Work injuries used to be from highly mobile tasks of hunting and gathering, for which the body was actually well designed. So the injuries tended to be from pure accident, rather than from enforced ergonomics. This changed with the industrial age, when we started to...
by Peter G. Hanson, M.D. | Oct 22, 2011 | Ergonomics, Exercise, Health, Managing Stress
The human body was built for “hunting and gathering”, not “hunt-and-peck” typing. Our DNA and our evolution is built on movement. However, we now have invented a work form that is virtually movement-free: the modern office. Instead of walking, foraging and farming, we...
