The last time I had serious neck pain was due to monitor being too low.
Both monitors are a bit low on my perspective (not expert here). My rule of thumb is the url bar is at the eye level.
Give it a try. Hope it helps!
Lift your monitor a few inches, and pay attention to how your orient your windows on your screen. Make sure you aren’t looking down while you’re performing the majority of your work. Also, if you’re using a secondary monitor, make sure it is used for *secondary* work. Don’t spend a prolonged amount of time looking to the side.
My second monitor was definitely too low so I put something to elevate it. I look at it for messages since that’s where I have set up my slack. I also have a foot step beneath my feet to make sure my feet are resting comfortably.
The setup honestly looks fine. It's a big monitor for the distance, but should be OK.
I think we may be missing more general things here:
Have you changed anything else since buying the bigger monitor? (e.g. do you sit here more than you used to?)
Are you less active in general now in comparison to before the neck pain?
Are you taking frequent breaks that involve standing up and doing another activity, such as light exercise or stretches?
Is this your normal sitting position, or just an optimal sitting position for the purposes of the photo?
Chiropractor I saw awhile back taught me that the bottom 1/3 of your monitors should be at your natural resting eye level to alleviate neck strain or tension.
I can't imagine that would be too great for eye-strain though however, since looking up is harder on the eye muscles than looking down. This is the main reason why most "ergonomic gurus" seem to recommend having the top-ish area (ex. top 1/3) part of the monitor at eye-level so you look down more, and then also to tilt the display facing upwards about 10° or so.
Definitely curious to hear more about how you feel with that setup though!
Height of screems seems to be ok for my opinion too... But i started to think, is backrest of seat too upright and is seating posture comfortable to you? If you live northern part of Finland, i would lend to yo few options to find out how they change situation :D
Maybe a wider monitor causes neck pain because you are always twisting your neck to see things. I got a wider screen a while back, but have been having neck pain lately. Maybe I should go back to a smaller monitor for just writing, etc., and have the larger one off to the side for other stuff.
Before I had my monitors up on arms attached to the wall, I put my college education to work for me by using those $300 textbooks as spacer blocks for my monitors. 100%, as someone with lifelong neck pain issues, you just want to raise those monitors up more. Rule of thumb is to have your eyeline centered on the center of the monitor, my preference is to have the monitor a couple inches higher than that.
Have you tried moving one monitor so that it's directly in front of you, and the 2nd monitor is off to the side? An ergonomic consultant recommended that to me and it helped a lot. I put all my most commonly used windows on the primary monitor, and only use the 2nd monitor for stuff i don't look at very often. Before that I got pain from moving my neck side to side so much.
>Have you tried moving one monitor so that it's directly in front of you, and the 2nd monitor is off to the side?
I did this and for the last two years I've had pain in my right shoulder muscle.
It was only last week that I correlated it to craning my neck to my off-to-the-left monitor. (Hence now why I'm searching trying to figure out posture solutions)
Yeah, I think it only works if you're able to spend \~90% of your time looking at the primary monitor, and only use the secondary one when necessary.
That does lose some of the benefit of multiple monitors, but it was the only was I found to stop my neck pain.
The last time I had serious neck pain was due to monitor being too low. Both monitors are a bit low on my perspective (not expert here). My rule of thumb is the url bar is at the eye level. Give it a try. Hope it helps!
Lift your monitor a few inches, and pay attention to how your orient your windows on your screen. Make sure you aren’t looking down while you’re performing the majority of your work. Also, if you’re using a secondary monitor, make sure it is used for *secondary* work. Don’t spend a prolonged amount of time looking to the side.
I upgraded to a 27 inch and my neck started killing me. I think the larger the monitor the further back it needs to be.
My second monitor was definitely too low so I put something to elevate it. I look at it for messages since that’s where I have set up my slack. I also have a foot step beneath my feet to make sure my feet are resting comfortably.
Sell it, buy a 27” or two of them. And raise the top of the screen to be parallel to your eye level.
The setup honestly looks fine. It's a big monitor for the distance, but should be OK. I think we may be missing more general things here: Have you changed anything else since buying the bigger monitor? (e.g. do you sit here more than you used to?) Are you less active in general now in comparison to before the neck pain? Are you taking frequent breaks that involve standing up and doing another activity, such as light exercise or stretches? Is this your normal sitting position, or just an optimal sitting position for the purposes of the photo?
Make sure you do stretches and light range of motion exercises. See chin tucks
Chiropractor I saw awhile back taught me that the bottom 1/3 of your monitors should be at your natural resting eye level to alleviate neck strain or tension.
I can't imagine that would be too great for eye-strain though however, since looking up is harder on the eye muscles than looking down. This is the main reason why most "ergonomic gurus" seem to recommend having the top-ish area (ex. top 1/3) part of the monitor at eye-level so you look down more, and then also to tilt the display facing upwards about 10° or so. Definitely curious to hear more about how you feel with that setup though!
Height of screems seems to be ok for my opinion too... But i started to think, is backrest of seat too upright and is seating posture comfortable to you? If you live northern part of Finland, i would lend to yo few options to find out how they change situation :D
Maybe a wider monitor causes neck pain because you are always twisting your neck to see things. I got a wider screen a while back, but have been having neck pain lately. Maybe I should go back to a smaller monitor for just writing, etc., and have the larger one off to the side for other stuff.
get a standing desk.
Before I had my monitors up on arms attached to the wall, I put my college education to work for me by using those $300 textbooks as spacer blocks for my monitors. 100%, as someone with lifelong neck pain issues, you just want to raise those monitors up more. Rule of thumb is to have your eyeline centered on the center of the monitor, my preference is to have the monitor a couple inches higher than that.
Have you tried moving one monitor so that it's directly in front of you, and the 2nd monitor is off to the side? An ergonomic consultant recommended that to me and it helped a lot. I put all my most commonly used windows on the primary monitor, and only use the 2nd monitor for stuff i don't look at very often. Before that I got pain from moving my neck side to side so much.
>Have you tried moving one monitor so that it's directly in front of you, and the 2nd monitor is off to the side? I did this and for the last two years I've had pain in my right shoulder muscle. It was only last week that I correlated it to craning my neck to my off-to-the-left monitor. (Hence now why I'm searching trying to figure out posture solutions)
Yeah, I think it only works if you're able to spend \~90% of your time looking at the primary monitor, and only use the secondary one when necessary. That does lose some of the benefit of multiple monitors, but it was the only was I found to stop my neck pain.