Your Glasses And Crucial Laptop Positioning Info

hey there it’s David H Lawrence the 17th
and I just got back from a physical
therapy session I’ve been going to
physical therapy for about a month or so
and it occurred to me that when we
figured out the reason for the pain that
I’ve had in my neck and my shoulder and
my back and down my arm I would share it
with you just in case so these are new
glasses and they’re new glasses and
they’re actually aiding in the problems
with my neck and my back and my my
shoulder here’s what was going on so
this is these are my old glasses these
have these were what are called office
trifocals and so what office trifocals
are is taking the lens and dividing it
into three sections the top section for
me is looking off in the distance the
middle section for me on those glasses
was what’s called computer distance and
then the lower one was even closer for
reading so here’s a situation most
people have their laptop down on the
desk I have mine raised so that the
camera is at eye level that’s
appropriate for shooting videos right so
when your laptop is down at on desk
level rather than up at eye level when
you look at your your laptop you’re and
you look through the the middle part of
your glasses your head is normal it’s
it’s sort of sitting there and you’re
reading your thing and then if you need
to read something close you look even
further down through the bottom third of
the glasses right and then you use the
top third for off in the distance so I
didn’t understand I didn’t get why this
was happening until it was pointed out
to me but once I raised my computer up
so that the camera was at eye level
all of a sudden looking at the screen
with those glasses I was doing this all
the time because I was looking through
the second third the middle third of the
glasses and then if I wanted to read
something I could you know put it
wherever I wanted but I was constantly
my head was rocking back by about 20
degrees and
was constantly balancing it like this
even to do that now hurts but now that
I’ve got these new glasses where I can
look straight at the camera and I had
them adjusted I told them how high my
eight my laptop was off the desk they
adjusted the divisions and now it’s
awesome right so if you decide at some
point to do what I did because you are
doing a lot of on-camera video either
Skype sessions or zoom sessions or
you’re making videos like this
or you’re even doing self taped
auditions or you’re teaching with the
camera on or whatever and you wear
glasses or if you know somebody who
wears glasses then by all means make
sure that they adjust their prescription
to the height of the if you’re gonna
leave your laptop on the desk well
that’s great you can just do that and if
you already have a desktop computer
where the monitor is really big and the
cameras in the top of the bezel that
same thing could be happening to you
because computer trifocals assume that
your laptop is down on the desk so
nothing earth-shattering in terms of
productivity today or best practices but
I would love for you not to have to go
to physical therapy and hopefully this
will get corrected pretty soon what have
you done to adjust to your health
concerns or your health limitations or
your your health you know situation let
me know in the comments below wherever
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I’m David H Lawrence 217 thanks so much
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