Most desk advice is confident and unsourced. This site works the other way round: every number here comes from a study you can go and read, and where the evidence is thin, it says so.
Two of the most repeated claims about desk posture, checked against what the papers actually report.
The number everyone quotes comes from one finite element model. Here's what it actually computed, what it assumed, and what part of it holds up.
EvidenceFifteen studies, one meta-analysis, and a finding that splits by age in a way most posture advice ignores entirely.
Send three photos of your desk and I'll send back a written biomechanical assessment: what your joint angles actually are, which of them is doing the damage, and the specific changes worth making in order of effect.
Written assessment, returned within three working days. Not a template — each one is measured from your photographs against your own height and reach.
What's includedI'm Rama Krishna Reddy Guduru. I hold a PhD in biomechanics and my research is on musculoskeletal load — surface EMG, 3D motion capture, and musculoskeletal modelling in OpenSim and AnyBody. I've published twenty peer-reviewed papers and I review for three journals.
That background is the entire reason this site exists. I can read the primary literature, tell a modelled estimate from a measurement, and say plainly when a popular claim rests on one paper that nobody checked. More about the approach →