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How to Protect Your Eyes While Gaming

Ten Steps to Healthy Eyes

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 09/06/2006 | 11:30 PM ]

Spending hours working on playing on a personal computer can be harmful. The entire body experiences negative effects that can cause lateral epicondylitis, tendonitis, bursitis, and carpel tunnel syndrome among others, but there is a way to reduce the harm.

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In order minimize the damage done to the organism health professionals recommend that gamers must take a break every 40 minutes to an hour. They must get up from the computer or gaming console and stretch their limbs, walk around a bit, and look at objects at a great distance. Crucial to healthy gaming is posture while playing. The chair must be comfortable, have back support, and the feet must rest on the floor.

A small guide on Laptop Gamers describes ten simple steps that will help prevent such damages like eye irritation, headaches, dry eyes, pain, change in prescription numbers, squinting, difficulties in focusing, and frequent blinking.