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[Victoria L. Herring]

>FRESHLY SQUEEZED REVIEWS: Doctor, Doctor, Please...
>by Frank Petrie
>
>Product: Desk Doctor
>Company: Einspine <www.einspine.com/deskdoctor/features.html>
>Requirements:
>* Mac OS X 10.2.7 or later
>QuickTime 7 for OS X
>256MB total memory; 18MB available memory
>500MB free disk space
>Price: $129.00US, single user
>Binary: N/A
>Test Rig: PowerMac G4/DP 1.42Ghz/1.5 GB RAM/OS 10.4.9
>Review Date: 26 April 2007
>
>I've been handicapped for near half of my life now (not including my
>mental instability :-) ), so I have tried everything to improve my
>computing experience. Ergonomic keyboards and mice, speech
>recognition, etc. But there is nothing that I can recall seeing like
>this piece of software.
>
>"Desk Doctor is new software that identifies Repetitive Strain Injury
>(RSI) and targets it accurately with a personal treatment plan. First
>the program guides you through on-screen medical tests. Then Desk
>Doctor uses its built-in reasoning to compile the optimum video-
>guided exercise program to reverse problems and keep you healthy."
>
>McCoy into the hatch. There's a new doctor in town. Desk Doctor by
>Einspine. But to be safe let's put it to the test before I unlock the
>hatch's latch.
>
>THE JUICE
>
>Desk Doctor helps you with preventing RSI, Repetitive Strain Injury.
>Who does this affect?
>
>"Computer workers, video game players, people who text a lot on
>mobile phones or use PDAs are succumbing in alarming proportions to a
>group of diseases caused by just sitting and clicking. These
>conditions are usually conveniently put under the umbrella term
>'Repetitive Strain Injury.' RSI covers a wide variety of problems
>both those with colorful names like Carpal Tunnel Syndrome,
>Blackberry Thumb and Trigger Finger as well as "pain-between-shoulder-
>blades" or one of the hundreds of kinds of upper body tendonitis.
>
>"What these diseases have in common is that they all can be caused by
>doing the same repetitive movements over a long time period. Doing
>them while in a fixed posture, especially bad posture, just
>multiplies the problem."
>
>The way Desk Doctor operates and develops your exercise plan is by
>having you take a thirty minute test (it's suggested that you do this
>monthly) to give you a set of exercises to counter act the strains.
>The test is in two parts.
>
>The first part is The Body Map. This is where you pick specific areas
>of pain or stiffness that you experience while working at your computer.
>
>The second part is a collection of fifteen exercises that helps the
>software evaluate where your trouble spots are. (Don't worry if
>you're not sure of how to perform each exercise because they're all
>accompanied with a demonstrative video.) These are extremely thorough.
>
>After you have completed both tests, Desk Doctor's Profile Viewer
>will generate a series of exercises (also accompanied by videos) for
>rehabilitation, prevention and specific trouble spots.
>
>The layout of the program is excellent. Everything is easy to locate.
>You keep a window on your desk that lets you know when it's time to
>do your exercises. It figures this out by keeping track of your mouse
>clicks and movements, plus breaks! Or, in Preferences, you can set a
>harp to play when your health numbers fall below the level of your
>choice. This way, you don't have to look at your monitor, it'll give
>you audio feedback.
>
>THE PITS
>
>Support has me on a fence. When I go under the Help Menu and click on
>Help - nothing. But they have an extremely thorough support page on
>their FAQs page that made up for it. Unfortunately the link to the
>page is not under the Help Menu, so you'll have to bookmark it.
>
>THE RIND
>
>Nada.
>
>THE PULP
>
>Einspine's Desk Doctor is right out of science fiction. You can tell
>that a lot of thought and late hour went into crafting this virtual
>doctor. This program is more thorough with its questioning than some
>of its human counterparts.
>
>The price? It's worth it. This isn't just any piece of software.
>
>You've started to maintain your computer. Now, it's time to maintain
>its operator.
>
>RATING: 9 out of 10
>
>=============================================
>
>©2007 Frank Petrie - Macsimum News contributing editor, Freelance
>writer, Curmudgeon
>Email: <mailto:phranky%40mac.com>phranky at mac.com
>iChat: phranky
>Archive: home.comcast.net/~phranky
>
>=============================================
>
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>
>Thank you.

-- 
Victoria L. Herring, Des Moines, Iowa -  Attorney 
at Law, for civil rights,  discrimination and 
employment law matters;  Des Moines, Iowa: 
http://www.herringlaw.com.  Ph. 515/255-4475; 
iChat AV:  victoriaherring at mac.com.
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