Repetitive Strain Injury - its Murder!
- 24 February 2009 08:4215986Has anyone got any tips as to how to deal with this. At the moment Im crippled in agony with my right arm and doing this website has become nearly impossible. The amount of work that goes on behind the scenes just to make the thing look easy has to be seen to be believed but Im paying the price. Even touching my mouse is well nigh impossible.
Ive had this before in the old days when Rick was onboard but I had less workload then. Eventually it passed off with more luck than judgement.
The NHS website says there is no cure for it...but maybe somebody has some tips on how to live with it.
I'll be happy to see all answers even rude ones as I could do with a laugh!
email: dover7@msn.com - 24 February 2009 09:1815987PaulB, I sympathise as someone who also spends a lot of time on a pc I suffer from time to time as well.
1. Get a decent computer chair so that you have proper support and are sitting correctly for starters, i.e. you haven't got all your weight on one elbow or something.
2. Get one of those gel wrist rests, they are very good when you are using your pc for a long time in fact I swear by them. I have a long bar type one in front of the keyboard and a smaller wrist rest/mouse pad. They are available from computer stores or the big electrical chains which stock accessories.
3. Make sure your computer desk is the right height for you and that you are not slumping or leaning.
I hope that may help you a little. - 24 February 2009 10:0515991My best advice?
Counter it by another repetitive strain, namely repetitive strain of the ear'oles.
ie Nag people into helping you ...
I've got RSI in my right arm too. It hurts. That's owing to working all the hours sent on the Dover War Memorial Project.
(No, Brian
, the reason isn't because it's what my right arm is for. Sadly. )The Dover War Memorial Project
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24 February 2009 10:2015993if i would maggie,a tip for rsi drink more beer wont cure it but it damm well makes you feel better. - 24 February 2009 10:4115994PaulB I have the same problem and what I have found helps is two things. Get a trackball as the different motion involved eases strain on some of the overworked muscles and to also used your other hand at times, again to lessen the strain and help rest the affected arm.
There is no easy answer but these two things keep me working . - 24 February 2009 11:2215995Good advice there Paul from Jeane and BarryW, I myself think you need a couple of good wimmin there to massage yer arm. But at your age they are hard to come by, so I think a Gel Pad is the answer
- 24 February 2009 17:1416009Thanks for all the tips and advice there guys and gals..its very good. Jeane that's very accurate because I can see I am making all those mistakes. I am now having a swivel higher chair delivered by Barry and Colette in the next few days to keep me on par with the desk, its one from the oul office days.Yes interesting about trackball BarryW. I can see how that would be less of a problem. And of course Brian is right..being totally blitzed would make it all ideal, but and I say but, I might have a tendency then to spout gibberish. Not something I ever do ...ahem ...
Colette & Maggie yes I need help I know... but wimmin are hard to come by...and yes you are right I need two...one to type my every thought on the keyboard and one to mop my fevered brow as I gaze on bedazzled at the speed of those keyboard flitting fingers.
....its still murder alas.email: dover7@msn.com - 24 February 2009 18:5416013strangely enough RSI was in the news yesterday.
apparently it is on the increase.
that should make paul feel better. - 25 February 2009 08:4516068Paul
I had severe RSI pains in both my elbows and slightly less in my wrists (always typing away on the laptop); I'd tried all sorts of tablets and pain-relieving gels, but no real help.
I went into Curiosity of Dover in Cannon Street and Jenny the owner, said to put on a copper bracelet - which I did and now I have no pain at all.
I don't know how or why it works, but it does. Jenny's husband wears one on each wrist and he has no pain now at all. They only cost about £5.00, so well worth it.
Buy one Paul - you know it makes sense !
Roger - 25 February 2009 11:0216089Roger thanks for that interesting information - will certainly aim to get one of those bracelets as soon as I can. The nasty
problem is curtailing my input on here at the moment so its a nuisance all round...and a painful one...bummer!
email: dover7@msn.com - 25 February 2009 11:5016094Might give them a try myself!! Thanks for that.
- 25 February 2009 12:0016097My wife said I should get a copper bracelet to go around my waist then hopefully I won't continue to be such a pain in the a***!
No idea what she means.Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter) - 25 February 2009 12:1116100You've got repetitive strain of the b*m, Marek??
How on earth .... no, I'm not even going to ask ....
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www.doverwarmemorialproject.org.uk - 25 February 2009 12:2416101Maggie
It must be the Cambridge diet I am on but my wife is continually whinging that I'm a pain in the neck.Perhaps I need two bracelets..
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter) - 25 February 2009 12:3716103Far it is from me to conjecture ... but it did cross my mind that she could have been wondering about getting you a snugly-fitting one for around the neck, and considering whether that might help alleviate some of the problems .... The Dover War Memorial Project
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