Ayurveda offers treatments including external relaxation and muscle & joint soothening manipulations and marma (vital points) revitalizing treatments like Sulochana, Elakkizhi, and Abhyangam etc and these medications when administered by trained hands are best available preventive methods available for Overuse injuries.

These include specialized external applications of oils and herbal pastes and along with internal medication, shall bring down inflammation and pain. Medicines such as Jadamayadi lepa choornam, Nagaradi lepa choornam and treatment procedures like Elakkizhi, Njavara Kizhi etc and internal medicines like kashayam and Arishtams are very effective, in fact more preferable to any anti-inflammatory analgesics of our time, which themselves proclaim to gift lots of complications on long term use.

VISION SYNDROME:

Concentrated tasks can cause tired eyes and blurred vision. Using a computer does not cause any permanent damage to your eyes. However, working on a computer is a demanding visual task that can cause eye discomfort. If you have an uncorrected vision it can make computer use uncomfortable and can lead to blurred vision and eyestrain. Focusing your eyes at same distance & point for extended periods of time causes fatigue. Ayurveda specifically mentions about continuous eye fatigue leading to damage to eyesight. The human eye structurally prefers to look at objects further than six meters away, so any work-performed close-up places extra demands on tiny muscles. The illuminated computer screen can also contribute to eye fatigue.

Symptoms include: §Blurred vision §Temporary inability to focus on faraway objects §Headache.

In case of vision problems, though monitors are themselves not a culprit, way they are utilized creates problems. The problems like long working hours without break, glare and improper lighting can be easily eliminated by good working habits such as resting periodically and refocusing eyes on objects at different distances, overhead lighting and appropriate placement of monitor. Placing monitor at right angle from brightly lit windows can reduce screen glare.

Moreover there are exercises to keep eyes healthy. Changing eyes focus can relax ciliary muscles of eyes. Blinking can moisten eyes and stimulates tear production that can wash away pollutants.

Ayurvedic Care and cure:

According to Ayurveda, for prevention best medication would be to consume Tribhala choornam, specially prepared, daily with milk or with plain water. Washing eyes twice daily with special eye care herbal medicines and doing eye exercises is a very effective way to prevent potential eye disorders and fatigue. These medications not only keep eye non-strained and cool but can also prevent even retinal damages owing to constant strain. For cure of eye disorders Ayurveda offers very particular internal medicines and also treatments like Tarpanam, Nasyam etc along with internal medicines like Jeevaneeya Gana Gritam. Special procedures like "Sudarsana" gives one of best available preventive and curative care for eye, be it simple eye strain or retinal disorders.

Prevention tips:

Suggestions to reduce risk of eyestrain include:

ØMake sure your primary light source (such as a window) isn't shining into your face or directly onto monitor.

ØTilt monitor slightly to eliminate reflections or glare.

ØMake sure your computer screen isn't too close to your face.

ØPosition screen so that it is either at eye level, or slightly lower.

ØReduce contrast and brightness of your screen by adjusting controls on monitor & also consider using colour schemes that are easier on eyes, particularly shades of gray for text documents.

ØIncrease your font sizes.

ØFrequently look away from screen and focus on faraway objects.

ØHave regular eye examinations to check that blurring, headaches and other associated problems aren't caused by any underlying disorders.

STRESS:

"Usually I creep into poor guys neck first and he calls me pain in neck.

How superficial? I think when he speaks to friends like that.

He usually helps me by working more and caring less about problems I cause, for God has not given him time, he says. (I tend to agree with him, it must be God's will, for how else can God create me without offering me a means of survival.)

The humans have not yet recognized me. But let it be. It is said that they want to find only viruses and bacteria or now a days genes. (Yes of course, hats off to our great new age leaders like HIV and our old and awe-inspiring fighter, in fact our role model when young, TB) How funny?

Ya ya, It is said that I am offspring of many years of constant prayer by our race, Diseases, to beat man at their own game. This is our time. When we beat them at their technology or through their technology? Their Computers? The blasted things, which are helping them to think and work against us. Now you see why I am a hero. I beat them in their own game.

You know how long I had to lie dormant? There was great hope around 200 years before when they started their so-called industries (We, elite of Diseases, call it our restaurants and Resorts). But soon somebody found us out and reported. They made life so difficult to us by working in proper conditions and soon you see we are available in good fertile countries like India only.

Ya, you want to know how I do it? It is my secret. Still for somebody like you I shall open my mind. Computers are my vectors. You know vectors. Like my uncle Malaria and cousin Dengue, they use mosquitoes as vectors & I use computers. Yes, you see I use them to pass me on and I seep into anybody looking at computers.

No they can't find me. No microscope can do it. As long as they don't look into themselves I am fine. You see. I am they and they are me. Does it not sound like "Aham Brahmasmi".

See him. That guy over corner. He is best fodder for me around. See how keenly he is looking into computers. How important he thinks his work is or rather he is. How much he wants to be performer. (Growls) Ya, I will show him in just 365 days. If he is cooperating that is. I can make him sit back at home looking at sky with enough drugs from a shrink to help him out of his depression because of his lost job. You Bet.

NO NO, not neck alone. I get in through where I like. Neck, wrists, head, eyes, ears, low back, legs. You name it I can get in through there.