On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 12:03:41AM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > >>Avoid RSI? > > > >This sounds like the true goal. > > Fair enough. > > >When you look at the English language, and the distance travelled per > >finger to type English prose, Dvorak comes out to have more on the home > >row than Sholes. Total distance travelled per finger is less. > > > >Let motion = less damage. > > No. Not proven. Not even *close* to being proven. No medical study > has found this link. > > If true, video game controllers would be producing huge numbers of RSI > injuries. They are not.
I thought they produced a considerable number, although IIRC it usually takes several years to develop the injuries. I'm speculating that it often takes even longer to injure young people. > > Most studies have shown that the amount of *stress* which is affecting > someone is more of an RSI activator than anything having to do with > keyboards or controllers. > > This is why work keyboards tend to produce RSI but fun gaming > controllers do not. Maybe my experience wasn't typical, but for me stress aggravated discomfort typing but especially bad keyboards were much worse. Wasn't there something called Pac-Man thumb? Aren't there other (common?) injuries from other games? Also, IMO, typical doctors would assume less motion causes less damage unless ( maybe even despite) studies actually proved otherwise. Stewart Strait -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
