ergonomoics

Easy Steps to Make Your Keyboard More Ergonomic

Have You Ever Considered the Time You Spend Using Your Keyboard? For those who use computers for work, the hours spent using a keyboard can rival the time spent in chairs or on mattresses. Have you invested in an ergonomic chair and a comfortable mattress but overlooked your keyboard?
Place your hands naturally on the table and observe their position. Notice how different this natural posture is compared to when you use a traditional keyboard. This is the difference between a neutral posture and a non-neutral posture. Traditional keyboards are silently causing harm to your body.

How Traditional Keyboards Are Sabotaging Your Health

Traditional keyboards often cause three main issues:
  • Ulnar Deviation: The bending of the wrist towards the pinky side.
  • Forearm Pronation: The rotation of the forearm so the palm faces downward.
  • Wrist Extension: The upward bending of the wrist.
These issues contribute to repetitive strain injuries (RSI) and carpal tunnel syndrome, significantly impacting your long-term health and comfort. Apparently, traditional keyboards were not designed with the human body in mind.

Fight Back: Three Steps to an Ergonomic Keyboard

Solving these problems can be simple with just three steps:
Step 1: Split Your Keyboard
Separate your keyboard in the middle. By splitting the keyboard, you can adjust the spacing and angle of each half, helping your hands remain in a more natural, aligned position.
Step 2: Adjust the Keyboard Feet
Move the keyboard feet to the sides to change the rotation angle of your forearms. Traditional keyboard feet are designed to make the keys more visible, not to improve comfort. Adding tenting in the middle of the keyboard provides significant ergonomic benefits by reducing forearm pronation.
Step 3: Add a Palm Rest
Incorporate a palm rest. People often relax their hands on the desk while using a keyboard. A palm rest provides support during these moments, helping to maintain a neutral posture.
While these steps might sound straightforward, implementing them involves significant changes in both software and hardware.

Feel the Difference with the NocFree Lite

At NocFree, we’ve done the hard work for you. The NocFree Lite is designed to seamlessly integrate these ergonomic improvements into your typing experience. We have put a lot of thought and effort into these small changes, and we hope they bring significant improvements to your entire desk posture and state. We believe that “A new type of life is in your hands.”

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