Keytools recommends that simple adjustments can eliminate undue strain on the neck and body. Read our advice on the correct posture and find out what adjustments you need to make.

The document should be in line with the monitor. This means you do not have to twist your neck or lean forward to read the document, and you can retain the same posture all the time.

You should not have to twist your body or neck to view the monitor - this will put undue strain on one side of your body.

Having a window behind your monitor may cause you to strain your eyes; having a window behind you may cause a glare on the monitor.

Too close or too far and you will strain your eyes. If you have a particularly large monitor, you may wish to move it further away - but make sure that you compensate by making the text on screen larger.

You should be looking slightly down on the centre of the monitor - usually at an angle of 15 to 20 degrees. If you have a particularly large monitor this may mean that the top is higher than your eyes; in this case you may wish to move the monitor further away than normal. You should not have to lean your head back to view the top of the monitor. You should not be looking down too much either; if your monitor is too low, raise it up.

This may just be placing a monitor stand underneath, but is very important to make this simple adjustment.

Keytools sells a range of monitor arms, screen filters and workstation document holders to help to achieve the correct posture.

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