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Get thee to the pharmacy on your lunch break and get some diclofenac most commonly sold as volterol (make sure you eat something before you take it). Ask for a DSE (Display Screen Equipment) assessment they will look at your desk/chair/computer set up and make recommendations, make sure you mention your hip to the assessor if you can back it up with a proper medical diagnosis they will have to provide you with new equipment, but if you cannot they will most likely supply you with it anyway to cover themselves.

Edit - As a new employee you should have one at the start or close to the start of your job anyway. It may be worth reminding them of this.

Best thing to do is talk to your GP...he will either advise on dosage or prescribe something else.

Or whip you with a bundle of inner tubes and make you call him Boss. My GP does that sometimes.

^^ And tell them that you're taking cocodamol too just in case there is a cointeraction.

Actually current HSE guidelines state that the angle of the back of your chair is more important than the height of the screen. A paper published in 2009 suggested that a 135 degree seating angle provides the best comfort while putting less strain on your back however this is not feasible for many people as they find themselves slipping off their chair so 120 degrees to 100 degrees is considered optimal.

I cannot remember the name of the paper but could dig it out if you are interested Tiswas.

Get thee to the pharmacy on your lunch break and get some diclofenac most commonly sold as volterol (make sure you eat something before you take it). Ask for a DSE (Display Screen Equipment) assessment they will look at your desk/chair/computer set up and make recommendations, make sure you mention your hip to the assessor if you can back it up with a proper medical diagnosis they will have to provide you with new equipment, but if you cannot they will most likely supply you with it anyway to cover themselves.

Edit - As a new employee you should have one at the start or close to the start of your job anyway. It may be worth reminding them of this.

Best thing to do is talk to your GP...he will either advise on dosage or prescribe something else.

Or whip you with a bundle of inner tubes and make you call him Boss. My GP does that sometimes.

OTC Voltarol is marketed as Paineze, which is only 12.5mg. YMMV, but it's pretty useless. Ask your GP for 50mg of goodness.

After the DSE (Display Screen Equipment) assessment, move your monitor upwards by 12 inches, as they are probably working off 25 year old advice.

"Your eyes should be level with the top of your screen" should read "your eyes should be level with the bottom of your screen".

I was on diclofenac before, I'll ask GP to put me back on. I'm also going to self refer back to physio. For me I find the major problem is desk height, i'm going to get some of those blocks to push it up 2 inches.

It definitely was peer reviewed I have a copy of it somewhere.........
sound of rummaging

OK, I was given a much more detailed HSE document when I had my DSE assessor training.

addstolistofstufftofind

second one is what i'd like

The paper I am thinking of was published after a joint study by Scottish and Canadian researchers using pMRI. Will get back to you.

Tiswas is Ben Goldacre AICMFP

Thanks for reminding me to ask for a DSE assessment - I've got my annual review in a few hours and it had slipped from my mental list.

Got a letter from the cops the other day about my crash in May.

"I am writing to advise you that police enquiries are now complete.
Despite every effort being made within the framework of the law, police have been unable to identify the driver of the other vehicle at the time of the incident."

"However, court proceedings are now being brought against the defendant named below for an alleged offence contrary to section 172 of the RTA, which relates to failure to give police information associated with the above incident."

So, am I right in understanding, they know who it is but the driver is basically denying it was them so the coppers are taking them to court for not providing information on who was driving, if it wasn't them, you know?

Just seen this on the Rider Down thread. The last time an investigation went this far with me, the case was spat out by the courts. I'm not sue why, but no-one was done for either taking me off my bike, or for not giving the name of the driver. Keep a close eye on it, and do follow it up.

It seems that if you want to get a conviction you need video footage of the crash, the driver getting out of the car and him/her saying: "oops, that was entirely my fault".

It seems that if you want to get a conviction you need video footage of the crash, the driver getting out of the car and him/her saying: "oops, that was entirely my fault".

You missed off the requirement for three independent witnesses, one of whom must be a high court judge and a signed confession (written in dragon's blood) by the driver.

Just seen this on the Rider Down thread. The last time an investigation went this far with me, the case was spat out by the courts. I'm not sue why, but no-one was done for either taking me off my bike, or for not giving the name of the driver. Keep a close eye on it, and do follow it up.

I'm not going to the court case. Is there a way to see if anything was done?
I just like the fact that there IS a court case. All I wanted was for them to be told what they did was wrong. This seems to be happening.

I'm not going to the court case. Is there a way to see if anything was done?

I'd really like to know this too, as I'd like to try and find out why the case that I was involved in was thrown out

Has Stonehedge been banned?

nope he left - as per his comments in the moderators thread.

Voluntary deletion

too slow

Thanks, just seen it.
WAC!

Has Stonehedge been banned?

no, check this topic.

not again Ed..

#donotclick

Nice topic Ed.
You should run for a position as a moderator.
Nice internet skills and all...

Why is has my Control Panel been all erased?