Spring is just around the corner, and soon you'll be back in the garden, picking your own flowers and freshly grown vegetables. But when you think of gardening, do you think of impossible deep knee ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — This week’s home improvement tip is for our fellow gardeners! If you love gardening but struggle with pain ergonomic tools could be a game changer. Designed to relieve stress on ...

OTTAWA — Sore wrists, stiff backs, aching knees: sure signs of spring as gardeners log long hours digging, weeding, planting. Ergonomic garden tools, supposedly designed like a good office chair to ...

Mary Berg was a master gardener until arthritis and hip replacement surgery caught up with her. The Tarzana, Calif., resident’s health forced her to drop the classes and volunteer hours required to ...

Gardeners with painful disabilities needn't have such a tough row to hoe. Nearly one in five U.S. adults - some 46 million people - has arthritis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Dear Savvy Senior, Can you recommend some good ergonomic gardening gear for seniors? My 72-year-old mother loves to work in the garden but has been plagued by various gardening injuries this year.

Horticulture therapy is in the midst of a boomlet, with therapists discovering that gardening seems to help people emerge from a variety of mental and physical quagmires. But roses have thorns, and ...

These advances in tools also have created new challenges involving the complex interactions between users and their tools. Improper hand tool selection has been known to result in injuries, variable ...

Tool manufacturers are improving all aspects of their tools, including the shape, size, weight, balance, torque, vibration, speed, and noise. Manufacturing industries, with diverse fastening ...