If you work at home a lot, make sure your workstation is set up correctly, to avoid strains and stresses that can leave you aching later on.

Make sure your monitor is in the right postion. It should be positioned so that you can "look down at the screen from above in a relaxed manner," says Andreas Stephan from the VBG, an accident insurance company in Germany. "As if you were reading a book."

It is best to tilt your monitor so that you are looking vertically at the screen, he says. The distance between the bottom edge of your screen and the edge of your table should be as small as possible.