Back pain and posture.

Nobody is immune to Back pain. It is the most common musculoskeletal condition, like tooth decay and the common cold, this is an affliction that affects a substantial proportion of population, at some point in their lives. This condition does not discriminate by gender, age, race or culture.

There are a number of surveys in many countries that reveal a point-prevalence of 17–30%, a 1-month prevalence of 19–43% and a life-time prevalence of 60–80%.

It has been said that backahe is the price the human race is paying for adopting a erect posture.
There are a number of factors which contribute towards developing backache like: Work environment and ergonomics, posture, psychosocial factors and spine/extraspinal pathologies. Sometimes these factors overlap towards causing this condition.

Common conditions that cause the back ache are: Disc pathologies, Injuries, degenerative changes in the spine, infections etc.

If your have chronic backpain, pain radiating along the thighs or legs, recurrent backpains, tingling or altered sensation in the limbs; please see the orthopaedician as it needs to be investigated.

In this article i will concentrate on backpain related to work and posture.

 Back pain is often a consequence of poor posture and stress on spine. This causes overtaxing of various tissues of the spine.

Stooping either in sitting or standing posture increases the strain on the spine leading to damage to intervetebral disks.








                                                                              

Knee pain in young IT Professionals

One of the common complaints, I encounter in my clinic is the knee joint pain in young individuals. Mind you most of my patients are IT Professionals, who sit in front of the computer and work, on an average of up to 10hrs a day.

Knee pain in young individuals is a common condition, esp in individuals involved in sports, prolonged sitting or standing jobs, industrial jobs and even office jobs.

Most of these patients have

• anterior knee pain, which is a dull aching pain: 
• aggravated by activities like prolonged standing or sitting, going up and down the stairs, jogging or doing sports. 
• Some of them can get grating sensation on moving the knee. 
• There is no swelling or redness of the joint
• and there is no history of any previous knee injury.

So if you are having these symptoms, you could be suffering from one of these conditions:

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Conky config for my conky showing date, time, stats, calendar, mail and weather

Update: Conky weather no longer works, so i have used yahoo weather to get the same effect in my new config. Look here for details.

Since some of you are asking for the conky config for the conky i posted in my previous post, here you go. This is a single instance of conky on my ubuntu maverick, displaying stats, date, time, calendar, gmail and weather.

You will need a lot of fonts and few scripts to run this successfully. 

Fonts used: 

1. Radio Space

My Ubuntu Desktop with single instance of conky displaying clock, calendar, stats, gmail and weather

Hi this is my Ubuntu Desktop showing conky. I have setup my conky to utilize the full real estate on the desktop. It is a single instance of conky showing : Date and time, stats, Google calendar, weather and Gmail. Pl ask if you want the conkyrc, will upload. Thanx..