Have you heard? Working your nine to five is literally killing you dead. Thanks to the Daily Mail for, as always, not blowing things out of proportion.

But the truth is that flacks like us spend 75% of our waking hours sitting in front of our computers, doing our flacky thing. And no matter how you slice it, that can’t be healthy.

For the past year, I’ve been fighting a dull pain in my mouse arm that’s probably the beginnings of carpal tunnel. I’ve found these exercises to be really helpful in lessening the pain if I do them every day:

And if I forget to stand up and stretch (and I will) then I try to take mental breaks. Or coffee breaks. Or LOLcat breaks.