Best Monitor Arms in 2026: An Optometrist's Guide to Proper Screen Positioning

Here’s something I tell patients every week: your monitor position is probably wrong. The screen is too high, too close, or tilted at an angle that’s slowly giving you neck pain and dry eyes. A monitor arm fixes all of this for under $40 — yet most people spend $1,500 on a chair before considering one.

As an optometrist, I see the downstream effects of bad screen positioning daily. Let me walk you through what actually matters and which monitor arms are worth buying.