by Peter G. Hanson, M.D. | Dec 26, 2013 | Ergonomics, Exercise, Health
Work injuries used to be from highly mobile tasks of hunting and gathering, for which the body was actually well designed. So the injuries tended to be from pure accident, rather than from enforced ergonomics. This changed with the industrial age, when we started to...
by Peter G. Hanson, M.D. | Nov 12, 2013 | Depression, Ergonomics, Exercise, Health, Heart Disease, Obesity, Prevention
Times have certainly changed. Smokers were “cool” in the early days of movies, and they were even hailed by doctors in media ads. Smoking became so popular that anyone who didn’t light up at work was considered “anti-social”. Today,...
by Peter G. Hanson, M.D. | Feb 13, 2011 | Stress Strategies, Time Management
Acupuncture is now being used in modern medicine, but it is certainly not new. Starting with moxabustion, surface stimulation dated back thousands of years, at least 4,000. Sparks from the campfire that may have landed on specific points on the...
by Peter G. Hanson, M.D. | Jan 2, 2011 | Pain, Pain control, Stress, Stress Strategies, Time Management
Back pain has become more common in the computer age than it was in the agricultural age. This may appear puzzling, because we are no longer working the land, we are now working the hand. Or at least both hands, at a keyboard. So how does the modern worker contract...
