RSI RSI RSI

[snoopy1239]

Does anyone know much about it? Do you or have you ever suffered from it? What are the common symptons? How should one go about preventing the risk of RSI.

[Dingdell]

I get it in my left hand - I massage the stomach with that hand during treatments and somedays I can't grip much. I've had to change my technique to cope with it. If I do 8 clients a day thats alot of massaging.

I get the inability to use the hand much and it can swell.

Not too bad but a warning for the future.

[booder]

i get it in my hand. also have hairs growing in the palm of my hand and my eyesight is diminishing. i too would like to know what prevents it.

[Sheriff Fatman]

Does anyone know much about it? Do you or have you ever suffered from it? What are the common symptons? How should one go about preventing the risk of RSI.

I got it from the spring-back of of a button on a cheap mouse a couple of years ago.  It's amazing how those button presses add up and contribute bit by bit.

For me it was well worth the investment in an ergonomically-friendly mouse - improved the situation massively.

Avoiding the causes of RSI can be difficult, if it's part of your day to day job, so the only other advice is to manage the situation as best as you can if this is the case.  Listen to what your body is telling you.  Sometimes you'll have no option other than to take a break to ease the problem.

[snoopy1239]

Does anyone know much about it? Do you or have you ever suffered from it? What are the common symptons? How should one go about preventing the risk of RSI.

I got it from the spring-back of of a button on a cheap mouse a couple of years ago.  It's amazing how those button presses add up and contribute bit by bit.

For me it was well worth the investment in an ergonomically-friendly mouse - improved the situation massively.

Avoiding the causes of RSI can be difficult, if it's part of your day to day job, so the only other advice is to manage the situation as best as you can if this is the case.  Listen to what your body is telling you.  Sometimes you'll have no option other than to take a break to ease the problem.

Can you recommend a good mouse?

[taximan007]

Does anyone know much about it? Do you or have you ever suffered from it? What are the common symptons? How should one go about preventing the risk of RSI.

I got it from the spring-back of of a button on a cheap mouse a couple of years ago.  It's amazing how those button presses add up and contribute bit by bit.

For me it was well worth the investment in an ergonomically-friendly mouse - improved the situation massively.

Avoiding the causes of RSI can be difficult, if it's part of your day to day job, so the only other advice is to manage the situation as best as you can if this is the case.  Listen to what your body is telling you.  Sometimes you'll have no option other than to take a break to ease the problem.

Can you recommend a good mouse?

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[Sheriff Fatman]

Does anyone know much about it? Do you or have you ever suffered from it? What are the common symptons? How should one go about preventing the risk of RSI.

I got it from the spring-back of of a button on a cheap mouse a couple of years ago.  It's amazing how those button presses add up and contribute bit by bit.

For me it was well worth the investment in an ergonomically-friendly mouse - improved the situation massively.

Avoiding the causes of RSI can be difficult, if it's part of your day to day job, so the only other advice is to manage the situation as best as you can if this is the case.  Listen to what your body is telling you.  Sometimes you'll have no option other than to take a break to ease the problem.

Can you recommend a good mouse?

Mine's a Logitech MX-1000, which I love.  The buttons are part of the overall outer casing (i.e. they're not a separate bit of plastic and there's no painful springback when they're pressed.

It might have been superceded now but look for something similar to this.  You want to be pressing down with the whole of your finger lying flat rather than just using the tip of it.

[taximan007]

winter MOUSE

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Happy MOUSE

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In Love MOUSE

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Singing/Dancing MOUSE

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[kinboshi]

I was starting to suffer from a pain in my right hand, through excessive use of my mouse.  I spend about 12 hours a day on a computer (on average), and the body just isn't made to cope with the micro-movements involved in using a mouse.  It's not what it evolved to do.

I'd did some research, and found a solution. 

I now use an Evoluent Vertical Mouse.  It's brilliant, and I don't suffer any pain in my wrist or hand at all now (unless I use a normal mouse for whatever reason, and then I feel the start of the pain coming after an hour or two).

Details of the mouse here:
http://www.evoluent.com/vm3.html

It's about £60 + P&P to get it from anywhere in the UK, and I got mine from an shop in the US via ebay, and it cost about £40 delivered.

I had the second series Vertical mouse, and it worked fine until I stood on it.  So I got the version 3  one which had come out by then.  It's a slight improvement on the previous one as well.  That was over 12 months ago, so I guess there might be new improvements, or different models to choose from now.

[byronkincaid]

My Mum got RSI years ago from too much computer work. It's not a good thing to get.

I use one of these

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/mice/devices/130&cl=us,en

 

[TightEnd]

My Mum got RSI years ago from too much computer work. It's not a good thing to get.

I use one of these

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/mice/devices/130&cl=us,en

 

exactly what I bought two months ago.

revolutionised my online enjoyment it did, seriously

[snoopy1239]

Can the single purchase of a mouse really stop you from getting RSI?

Byron, what happened to you mother? I don't even know what RSI does to people.

[CelticGeezeer]

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[Bainn]

Harmony suffers quite badly at times with RSI and has been heavily involved in the Nottingham RSI support group and will have some great information.

She is just finalising her things for an early flight to France, but may get a quick chance to post, if not she will in touch after the holidays.

[Jon MW]

Can the single purchase of a mouse really stop you from getting RSI?
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Not if the RSI is coming from typing, but if it is from the mouse then they are very good and should stop it.