Reduces Muscle Activity in Neck and Shoulders

The Comfort Rest were initially developed to help get injured individuals back to work. They dramatically reduce the muscle activity in the neck and shoulders, significantly reducing fatigue, discomfort, and pain.

• Maximum neck, shoulder and forearm support.
• Comfort Rest reduces upper body muscle activity.
• Promotes neutral arm and wrist position.
• Extends narrow work surfaces.
• Comfort Rest improves posture.

Don't Struggle to Work in Pain!

Experts state that keyboarding requires a combination of two kinds of muscle work, static and dynamic. The neck, shoulders and arms do static work to hold our hands in the typing position, and the fingers perform dynamic work while keyboarding. They conclude that static effort is actually more strenuous than dynamic work, so the arms, neck, shoulders - areas involved in the postural efforts exerted in simply holding our hands in place - deserve more focus.

To illustrate the point: You would have no problem using your arms to pick up and put down a five-pound weight repeatedly for a few minutes. Now, how about holding your arm outstretched with that same five-pound weight in a single position for a few minutes? Even though fatigue sets in rapidly, less work is actually being done, but it isn't the type of work for which the body was designed.

It's the same principle: Would you rather walk for an hour or stand in one place for an hour? Blood has difficulty flowing through contracted muscles; dynamic work actually helps pump your blood, and the blood is the key. It brings in nutrients and removes waste products that result from burning calories, particularly lactic acid.

Alan Brown, P.T., A.T.C., owner of Granite Hill Physical Therapy states: "Comfort rests have proven to be very effective in reducing excess demand placed on shoulder, neck, and upper extremity muscles while computing. Reducing this demand has helped decrease muscular-skeletal symptoms of computer operators."

Features:

Sizing:

Measure shoulder width from outside to outside as shown here.

Average-framed:

These rests fit about 95% of the population. Shoulder width is between 16 and 26 inches. Weight ranges from about 100 to 225 lb.

Small-framed:

These rests fit people with narrow shoulders and bodies. Shoulder width should be less than 16 inches. Weight is usually less than 100 lb.

Large-framed:

These rests fit people with very wide shoulders and bodies. Shoulder width exceeds 26 inches. Weight usually exceeds 225 lb.