repetetetetetitive strain

lirazel · 5th September 2007, 2:09am

looking for links, mostly!

am doing a shitload of computer-based typing/mousework at the moment, at work and then at home, and recently me finger tendons (or whatever you call 'em) are really starting to ache, and tingle a wee bit.

absolutely cannot afford to not be able to type at the moment - way too much work to do - so would prefer to head off any problem before it gets too bad!

apart from taking regular breaks, switching mouse hands etc is there anything else i should be doing? like, i dunno, warm-up excercises?

anyone got any ideas?

"stop posting on forum", i know, i know, am typing with one finger.

**PapaZeb** · 5th September 2007, 2:14am

Previous thread - http://www.altnation.com/forums/well...-have-rsi.html

If it's starting to hurt and you're in a crunch-time, you're already past the point of prevention. Ice-packs, pain-relievers, and wrist-braces are probably the way to go.
http://www.webmd.com/pain-management...Topic-Overview
and
http://www.webmd.com/pain-management...ome-Prevention

While I doubt you've done enough damage to yourself to be considered CTS, the symptoms of CTS/RSI are fairly similar and can be prevented or aleviated in the same manner.

(for other random reading, I recommend Neal Stephenson's "The Cryptonomicon" which features a programmer crazy enough to cripple himself with RSI so badly he's reduced to tapping instructions into the keyboard with a pencil

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wee scary burd · 5th September 2007, 2:30am

Cut it off!

karbon14 · 5th September 2007, 6:30am

i need to go have words with my doctor about my left wrist actually.

UncleDave · 5th September 2007, 7:34am

Speech recognition software, maybe? Or a dictaphone, and pay some unemployed folk to type up your notes.

Cheers!

lirazel · 5th September 2007, 11:33am

Quote:

Originally Posted by PapaZeb

Previous thread - http://www.altnation.com/forums/well...-have-rsi.html

If it's starting to hurt and you're in a crunch-time, you're already past the point of prevention. Ice-packs, pain-relievers, and wrist-braces are probably the way to go.
http://www.webmd.com/pain-management...Topic-Overview
and
http://www.webmd.com/pain-management...ome-Prevention

While I doubt you've done enough damage to yourself to be considered CTS, the symptoms of CTS/RSI are fairly similar and can be prevented or aleviated in the same manner.

(for other random reading, I recommend Neal Stephenson's "The Cryptonomicon" which features a programmer crazy enough to cripple himself with RSI so badly he's reduced to tapping instructions into the keyboard with a pencil

)

i totally missed that thread, cheers

wrong-handed mousework is really sodding frustrating. harrumph.

Quote:

Originally Posted by UncleDave

Speech recognition software, maybe? Or a dictaphone, and pay some unemployed folk to type up your notes.

Cheers!

personal PA ... heh

Quote:

Originally Posted by wee scary burd

Cut it off!

but then my dreams of being a juggler in a travelling fair would never be realised.

fate, you are a cruel mistress

**GreatKingRat** · 5th September 2007, 3:15pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by UncleDave

...pay some unemployed folk to type up your notes.

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