> >About 2 weeks ago my employer moved from a package which was about 90% > >keyboard based to a new package which requires almost complete mouse > > useage. As I am now pointing & clicking for 8 hours a day my mouse side > > shoulder is getting quite sore. > >Now to the question, I have seen thigh mounted mouse pads advertised and > >wondered if any of you have any experience of them, if so do they help > > ease the problems caused by repetitive mouse useage ? > >Another possibility is alternating between right/left hand useage, again > > do any of you do this or does the action which is alien to the "wrong" > > hand create the same problem on that side? > > > >-- Thanks to all who replied, you've given me some ideas to put to the management. At the moment I am stuck with the basic setup that I am given as I work in a 24/7 control room and never sit at the same workstation for 2 days running, this means that I can't customise my position other than correctly position myself and my equipment (not easy to arrange monitor,kb,mouse,radio,mini-switchboard,notepad and of course coffee coaster) because when I leave at the end of the shift someone else takes my place. This means that anything requiring driver installation or reconfiguration of the mouse, no matter how simple, is out of the question (I am in a user rather than a tech environment and some people find such things as swapping a broken keyboard frightening) I like the cordless option but I need to convince the management that everyone needs it. Temporary term solution - I'm taking in a mouse that fits my hand and is ambidextrous so that I can swap hands (right handed ms mouse supplied as standard - how short sighted can you get ?) . -- http://www.poogle.co.uk
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