Category: RSI in the News
Blood Tests May Identify RSI
Researchers at Temple University have found early indicators of inflammation in work-related injuries caused by repetitive motion. Their findings could someday lead to early detection and prevention of debilitating conditions such as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Tendonitis. The new study from senior researchers Ann Barr and Mary Barbe and their doctoral student, Stephen Carp, in [...]
Can Botox Help Relieve Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Pain?
Local injections of botulinum toxin type A (Botox) may provide long-lasting relief of pain associated with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), Taiwanese researchers report in Clinical Drug Investigation. CTS is a disabling disorder of the wrist and hand caused by compression of the median nerve, which runs through a narrow passageway in the wrist — the [...]
Can Dvorak Cure Typing Pain?
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 [...]
RSI Does Not Lead To Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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 [...]
International RSI Awareness Day 2007
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 [...]
RSI Is Not Just For Computer Users
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 [...]
Can Two-Finger Typing Lead To Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
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 [...]
Q-Ray Bracelets Ruled A Fraud
Not that this should be a big surprise or anything, but wearing a bracelet won’t cure your carpal tunnel syndrome. Carpal tunnel syndrome, or any repetitive strain injury, is not caused by failure to wear a special bracelet, nor can it be cured by wearing one.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Could Predict Diabetes
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 [...]
Ultrasound Guides Tendonitis Treatment
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 [...]
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