Vamp's Ergonomic Study for Carvers (survey available, just pm me your email address) - Tiki Carving

R RIOTURBAN Member Germany Joined: Jul 03, 2012 Posts: 133	R RIOTURBAN Posted posted on Thu, May 29, 2014 10:44 AM Hi VampiressRN, i used to suffer from a hurting neck after long carving session because of the head position.when you are carving standing up the problem is you have to bend your head down.that causes an over-stressing of the neck muscles.( in Germany the doctors call that very common problem "Handy-nacken" witch could be translated as "Smart phone-neck".people always bend their head down to look at the display). i now try to rest my upper body on a raked board with some kind of pillow another solution might be to use a climbing harness to get a more comfortable neck positioning( that looks quite funny :) ) my neck is now much better !!! great thing you are doing! best wishes simon

Hi VampiressRN,
i used to suffer from a hurting neck after long carving session because of the head position.when you are carving standing up the problem is you have to bend your head down.that causes an over-stressing of the neck muscles.( in Germany the doctors call that very common problem "Handy-nacken" witch could be translated as "Smart phone-neck".people always bend their head down to look at the display).

i now try to rest my upper body on a raked board with some kind of pillow

another solution might be to use a climbing harness to get a more comfortable neck positioning( that looks quite funny :) )

my neck is now much better !!!
great thing you are doing!
best wishes
simon

Post #718551 by RIOTURBAN on Thu, May 29, 2014 10:44 AM