RSI-Relief

At his Coder’s Eye blog, Bruce Kroeze writes about his use of a Dvorak keyboard layout (Dvorak as a cure for typing pain - a four year report). Four years ago, I decided to resolve a problem that had been troubling me for years, he writes. The situation was that my wrists and fingers hurt [...]

According to the results of a new study presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, a person’s genetics plays a larger role than hand use in whether or not they will develop carpal tunnel syndrome.
“The link between carpal tunnel syndrome and hand use is overstated and may be inaccurate,” [...]

February 28, 2007 is International RSI Awareness Day, a day set aside to highlight the workplace hazards and conditions that can cause Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI). The first RSI Awareness Day was February 29, 2000, because it was the only non-repetitive day of the year. In non-leap years, like this year, it is observed on [...]

During this year’s baseball playoffs, Detroit Tigers pitcher Joel Zumaya missed three games because of pain and inflammation in his right wrist and forearm. At the time, most people assumed that it was simply another case of a young pitcher fatigued by the long baseball season.
But now it’s been revealed that the injury wasn’t due [...]

In an article on MedPage Today (Two-Finger Typists at Risk for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome), Managing Editor Peggy Peck argues that it can.
“The time-honored “hunt-and-peck” approach to typing at a computer keyboard, using just the index fingers, may trigger a cascade of events that climaxes with carpal tunnel syndrome,” she writes.
In an article in the November [...]

Not that this should be a big surprise or anything, but wearing a bracelet won’t cure your carpal tunnel syndrome.
A federal district court in Chicago has ruled for the Federal Trade Commission in its case against the marketers of the Q-Ray ionized bracelet (which you may recognize from their ubiquitous cable television commercials).
The makers of [...]

According to a report in the medical journal Diabetes Care, researchers in England have concluded that “Carpal Tunnel May Be Sign Of Impending Diabetes“. In their study, they found that in more cases than would normally be expected, people who develop type 2 diabetes have a history of carpal tunnel syndrome. The wrist nerve problem [...]

In an article from Reuters Health, Megan Rauscher reports on a treatment for De Quervain’s Tendonitis (also known as “DeQuervain’s Disease” or “DeQuervain’s Syndrome”, which is an inflammation of the sheath or tunnel that surrounds two tendons that control movement of the thumb.
This painful Repetitive Strain Injury is often treated with a shot of cortisone, [...]

There’s a good article on the IT Analysis web site, about the dangers of repetitive strain injury (RSI) for IT (Information Technology) workers. In Warning! Computers Can Cripple You, Peter Abrahams of Bloor Research relates the interesting stories of two people who’ve suffered from the devastating effects of RSI.
In both stories, the person involved tried [...]

A piece by “Healthy Living” anchor Shauna Lake, from KUTV in Salt Lake City, discusses hand injuries and available treatments.
“It’s one of the leading causes of lost productivity and accounts for 10% of all emergency room visits. Treatments include exercises and stimulation along with preventative measures such as lifestyle and workplace changes. If you think [...]