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www.PainScience.com is a personal blog at saveyourself.ca about health and science. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
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What works? What doesn’t? Why? Rational, opinionated reviews of treatment options, and many handy tips. Strong pro-science bias.
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- /articles/chair-warriorism.php2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-25
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I'll pitch in with one that hasn't been mentioned yet. The Egoscue method: http://www.egoscue.com/meetpete.php . In particular Pete Egoscue's book Pain Free. I had a horribly seized neck a while ago where I couldn't look over my left shoulder. This had come on after visiting a physio for a very stiff upper back (a legacy of military service and lots of programming). I bought the book after reading about it in the 4…
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on “Fixing the computer guy posture [pdf]”Submitted Stretching Research - stretching isn't good for much of anything as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou shouldn't downvote contrarian anecdotes. You should just take them at face value for what they are. His notion that in the field of medicine you should disregard contrarian anecdotes because there's statistical evidence is horrible advice. If you actually looked at said statistical evidence, you'd realize it is very rarely strong, and often only relevant to 70% or so of the population (which is great for 2 out o…
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on “You Should Downvote Contrarian Anecdotes”> No one is asking you to "just believe" research; Did you read the study the parent post is talking about? A well funded laboratory, that was trying to not "just believe" research (as everyone else apparently does) was trying to replicate these results. If the science was good, all it should have taken is time and money (both of which they had enough of). And yet, 47 out of 53 celebrated results published in peer r…
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on “You Should Downvote Contrarian Anecdotes”Often these things (salary negotiation, negotiating debt/fees or automatic investing) aren't replicable (instantly). There are some kind of limiting factors. It's just not a system that scales infinitely. That said if you are time starved (+ "cash rich") and don't want to go through all the available, cheaper resources yourself there can be a lot of value in a condensed course/infoproduct that solve your exact probl…
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on “The Mixergy Guide to Building a Recurring Revenue Business From Scratch”> Standing to work has long known to be problematic, it is more tiring, it dramatically increases the risks of carotid atherosclerosis (ninefold) because of the additional load on the circulatory system, and it also increases the risks of varicose veins, so standing all day is unhealthy. The performance of many fine motor skills also is less good when people stand rather than sit. > The key is to build movement vari…
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on “Introducing StandDesk [video]”Treating trigger points saved me. I had terrible wrist pain and then I read about trigger points. I found some in my upper arms, massaged them out over a few days, and the pain was gone. Look for spots painful under a little pressure, massage it for 20 seconds. Repeat several times for a few days. Done. Read more at http://saveyourself.ca/
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on “Dealing with Wrist Pain”A lot of folks are starting to qustion the conventional wisdom — http://saveyourself.ca/articles/stretching.php
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on “7 Minute Workout by Quick Fit”For those without the cash to drop on Herman Miller, consider what I believe is the lowest-cost, leanest solution to good ergonomics: the standing desk. Don't wear shoes, stand up straight, and adjust the surface to where your arms drop down and relax on the home row of your keyboard. After a brief adjustment period it's possible to find yourself feeling better, with better posture, breathing, and general well being…
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on “The cost of a [programmers] chair”
