Hi Randall, I began developing wrist pain over 10 years ago when I was doing a lot of coding and playing too much Quake. The pain is only in the wrist and is aggravated by turning my whole hand outward while my palm is down (away from my thumb). At that time I switched to a Kinesis Classic keyboard. This helped a lot at the time, since I no longer needed to move my wrist in that uncomfortable direction to reach the backspace and enter keys while coding.
Over the following few years, the pain persisted though, particularly while playing too many video games. The mouse action to the right was a killer, so ended up buying a vertical mouse. This did help, since moving the mouse to the right no longer required moving my wrist to the right. It isn't perfect though. I still need to be sure my arm angle is correct and supported properly. A track ball might be in my future. I had my doctor briefly look at my wrist (no xrays or anything like that). He said based on the symptoms, it sounded more like arthritis than carpal tunnel. He recommended I wear a wrist brace while I sleep so I don't pinch my wrist in the wrong position for long periods of time. This does help. I wear it when symptoms are getting worse, and while I usually wake up in the morning with a stiff wrist, I it does help. I also wear it sometimes while at the computer and it adds support that alleviates some pain. That's my story. Hope it helps, tim On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 03:42:59PM -0700, website reader wrote: > To those knowledgable about ergometric computer products: > > Okay, this past 3 or 4 days I was doing a lot of work, and part of it > was using a mouse on a webpage, which required extensive clicking, > moving and reclicking. Now I have two (yes I taught myself how to use > the mouse with the left hand after the right arm went into pain) arms > with shooting pains in the upper arms, and with 2 wrists that are NOT > happy. > > I realize that the conventional mouse design is egonometrically > flawed, but I am confused by 2 designs offered, one is called a > handshoe mouse, and the other is a vertical mouse. > > Can anyone who uses an ergo mouse let me know how well they are > working out? Obviously the present mouse I am using had to go. > > I am concerned with the vertical design that the arm is supported > properly and with the handshoe design, that the wrist doesn't push > against the desk surface. In my case, letting my wrist rub or be > support on the desk surface has led to unhappy wrist pain, like the > tendons have been squished. > > Thanks! > > Randall > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
