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When I’m typing on my laptop, I transform from a human woman into a shrimp. As the day goes on, I curl forward as I clatter away on my keyboard, and I know I’m not the only person who becomes a crustacean under deadline pressure.
The idea of a “desk shrimp” is so familiar that it has become a popular internet meme, but it’s not just a joke. If you keep hunching forward over your phone and computer screens, you could be putting your body and mind at real risk.
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“If you hunch forward over something, you’re doing yourself a disservice,” said Alan Hedge, an ergonomics expert and professor emeritus for the human center
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