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 [...]
Desk-Trainer Reviewed
GTD Wannabe at http://gtdwannabe.blogspot.com/ offers up a review of Desk-Trainer, a web site that provides five-minute exercise programs for pain reduction and Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) injury prevention for employees and individuals using computer workstations, cellular telephones, blackberries and other devices . GTD Wannabe tried some of the exercises, and here’s what he found: I [...]
GentleMouse Reviewed
GentleMouse is a software utility that may be of great benefit to users suffering from Repetitive Strain Injuries, as well as those with conditions such as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, arthritis, or other physical disabilities. GentleMouse eliminates the need to click the mouse. It does this by introducing a novel computer input method that replaces physical [...]
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 [...]
WowPen Again
Since we last looked at the WowPen nearly a year ago (WowPen), a few things have changed with the 2nd generation of the product, including a new domain name: wow-pen.com, as well as a reworking of the product line: The WowPen eco is the wired desktop version The WowPen Traveler RF is a wireless version. [...]
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 [...]
Voice Recognition Software Reviewed
In an article at CBSNews.com (Voice Recognition Software Put To Test) PC Answer Man Larry Magid reviews Nuance Communications Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 voice recognition software, as well as the voice recognition software that will be included in the forthcoming Vista operating system (the next version of the Windows operating system, which is slated to be [...]
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