I've been wearing a wrist brace for the last couple of weeks and it does help a but I have been removing it at night to let my wrist have some R'n'R from being so restricted.. I figured sleep time was the best time to do that...
The specialist was recommending surgery although as my symptoms have only just appeared and after discussing things I think we'll be trying the steroid injections before we go to something as invasive as surgery although they said that surgery is about the only option that has good chances of success... It just seems that removing a big chunk of carteledge is a bit drastic although given the amount of pain I have endured this last couple of weeks, it doesn't seem as drastic as it would have done prior to me having any symptoms... As soon as my symptoms started I went out and replaced my mouse (no need for a keyboard as I have used ergonomic keyboards for about 10 years) and bought a couple of mini wrist supports and a moulded ergonimic mouse mat. My previous mouse of choice was a Cirque Cruisecat and I have used touchpads like that for the best part of 9 years as my main input device but I figured that amount of movement in my fingers probably wouldn't help things given my current situation so I've gone for a traditional (but ergonomic) mouse. All these things have helped to relieve things a bit, but it would appear that total abstenence for an undertermined amount of time is the only solution. Being a self employed software engineer/consultant however, abstenence is most certainly not an option. As a kid, I used to be ambidextrous and as I grew up, that was effectively educated out of me but now I'm seriously contemplating switching things around and giving the right side of my brain some excersise in the old hand eye co-ordination arena to take some of the workload off of my right hand. It's just such a weird feeling when your skin on your hand doesn't feel like your own... On a few of the sites I've been on looking at the issues around CTS, there have been references to excercises to relieve the pain but I haven't come across any sites telling me what the excercises are. If anyone has ant good links to that sort of thing then I'd be grateful as I would like to regard surgery as a final option after I have done some work trying to sort things out using some of the other alternatives first. Thanks Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Protect Your PC from viruses, hackers, spam and more. Buy PC-cillin with Easy Installation & Support http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=61 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:150512 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
