Category: RSI Tips
How to Select Ergonomic Gardening Tools
Gardeners with painful disabilities needn’t have such a tough row to hoe. A great many garden tools are marketed with the word “ergonomic” in bold type on the labels, meaning they’re intended to maximize the efficiency and quality of someone’s work.
10 Steps for Avoiding RSI Pain
BellaOnline Ergonomics Editor Marji Hajic provides a list of “10 Steps for Avoiding Repetitive Strain Pain”, aimed at the “computer athletes” who battle the every-day stresses and strain of working at a computer or desk job all day.
Massage Therapy And Repetitive Strain Injuries
The integration of Massage Therapy, stretches, exercises and hydrotherapy is a highly effective treatment protocol for many types of injuries, and very effective in eliminating chronic Repetitive Strain Injuries.
Workstation Health and Fitness for RSI
Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) is now a major industrial disease affecting millions of people around the world. RSI includes conditions such as carpel tunnel syndrome, tenosynovitis and tendinitis – often collectively referred to as upper limb disorders, musculoskeletal disorders, occupational overuse syndrome (OOS), computer related injuries or cumulative trauma disorders, or CTD. Often the posotion [...]
Avoiding RSI: What We Can Learn From Musicians?
The following article was contributed by Robert Rickover, a teacher of the Alexander Technique living in Lincoln, Nebraska. Before I became an Alexander Technique teacher, I assumed that the most impressive physical activities were performed by professional athletes. Their feats were regularly reported in the newspapers and on TV and radio and discussed by my [...]
Typing Techniques
Correct use of the keyboard is most important. If you are not typing correctly then your incorrect typing techniques can lead to and worsen RSI. Your wrists should be straight as shown below: DVORAK Layout Various RSI sufferers have switched to the DVORAK keyboard layout as it relieves the hand action during typing. It may [...]
RSI Home Remedies
HowStuffWorks.com offers an article titled 26 Home Remedies for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome that provides a list of things you can do to prevent and treat hand problems. For most people, the key to beating carpal tunnel syndrome is prevention: making changes before CTS becomes a problem. If you’re already experiencing some minor tingling, numbness, and [...]
Weaning Yourself From The Mouse
There are a number of ways to bypass the mouse, by using the keyboard and learning the shortcut keys built into your computer’s operating system, as well as shortcut keys provided by the applications you use every day.
Microsoft Offers RSI Prevention Tips
An April 2007 article in Microsoft Home Magazine, Protect Your Wrists from Typing, promises to help you “learn to identify the signs of carpal tunnel syndrome from frequent computer use”. The article relates the story of Joanne Bernard, who was “diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome caused by extensive computer use”, and goes on to discuss [...]
Mind Your Posture
In Your Computer May Be A Pain In The Neck, Stefanie Olsen of CNET News.com writes about “postural syndrome” – a repetitive strain injury involving the neck and spine. Postural syndrome is associated with the 12 vertebrae of the mid-back and chest area, with the injury commonly targetting the fourth, fifth and sixth discs in [...]
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