Third, when people experience pain from using a computer, more often than not they take no action—or they take the wrong action. Typically, debilitating injury from using a computer does not happen in a single day. Rather, these injuries are developed over a long period of time, as individuals experience pain and fail to resolve it. There are warning signs: numbness, cold fingers, sharp pain, difficulty sleeping, and so on. If people could simply learn to change their habits and work environment when they experience these symptoms, computer-related injury could be much less of a problem.

More often than not, people fail either to make changes or make the right types of changes to fix the root cause of their problem.

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