Common sense...or lack there of it

Hello everyone hope everything is going well for the PCR!! So I thought for my last entire I would talk about a patient of mine who has been testing my patience!! This man presented to the musculo outpatient clinic with a history of chronic pain and fibromylagia. This was not his first time to the clinic; he has attended at least 6 different times with various complaints. His complaint this time was of neck and shoulder pian/stiffness. My assessment did not reveal anything of concern, ie: ROM was full, Cx mobility was normal… he only had some tightness of his UT and LS. When I questioned him why he thought he had this problem he stated it was because he has his computer set up so that the screen is to the right of him, so he has to constantly look to the right while typing. So my obvious suggestion was put your screen so that it is face on, that way you don’t have to keep your head turned. He thought that was a brilliant idea and would try it and see if that helped.
He returned two weeks later and said he had adjusted his screen and that seemed to help, but he was still getting some neck pain and pain between his shoulders. Again, with further questioning I discovered that he was using a sun lounger as his computer chair. That’s right….a sun lounger!! I thought to myself….are you kidding me, do people not have any common sense…..surely you would have thought to yourself this can’t be good for my posture or neck. But he obvious did not so again I educated him on the importance of having a proper supportive chair and how the one he was using was not ideal!! So I have come to realise, what seems so obvious to us as physios is not obvious to the rest of the population and that is why education is so important.