• Visitors can check out the Forum FAQ by clicking this link. You have to register before you can post: click the REGISTER link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. View our Forum Privacy Policy.
  • Want to receive the latest contracting news and advice straight to your inbox? Sign up to the ContractorUK newsletter here. Every sign up will also be entered into a draw to WIN £100 Amazon vouchers!

RSI

Collapse
X
  •  
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    #11
    Originally posted by stek View Post
    If it's any comfort 'm 56 and don't have RSI, so I'm ok thanks.
    Yeah, but let's be fair, you don't need a keyboard to sign on or when your most intimate relationship is with Siri.

    Comment


      #12
      Originally posted by clearedforlanding View Post
      I tried acupuncture. It went badly. After my hand jumped after a needle was stuck in my meridian nerve and the guy said "can you see the energy being released" I had electric shocks in my arm for 10 months.

      Tai Chi, thanks for the suggestion, how do you think it would help?
      Flow of energy through your joints - might do something, might not. Another one is chi kung. A lot of old people do it to stay mobile, must have some effect. Can't hurt to try.

      http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~htctc/lecture_rsi.html

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZZsBz82OEk

      http://www.rsi.org.uk/treatment/tai_chi.html
      "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech."- Elon Musk

      Comment


        #13
        Originally posted by Jog On View Post
        Flow of energy through your joints - might do something, might not. Another one is chi kung. A lot of old people do it to stay mobile, must have some effect. Can't hurt to try.

        [/url]

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZZsBz82OEk
        Wow, thanks. That guy is so smooth that he looks like CGI.

        Comment


          #14
          1) Get two trackballs (for both hands - you'll have to learn how to use another hand with trackball).

          https://www.ebuyer.com/143730-kensin...ckball-64327eu - use it for left hand

          For right the best one is sadly discontinued and it fetches premium pricing now:

          https://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-D...dp/B00004Y7MT/

          If trying to get used to trackballs for the first time then might as well try if you like others - best to get used to something you can buy a lot NOW and avoid having to pay premium later.

          2) Get Microsoft Natural Keyboard - it will be hard to get used to it but you won't go back, ie:

          https://www.ebuyer.com/97577-microso...-usb-b2m-00008


          I've done this around 15 years ago, mostly got RSI down from very painful to nearly 0% now, would have been 0% if I wasn't posting tulip on here

          Comment


            #15
            I know a few people who have switched from using a mouse to a graphics tablet, it does take a week or so to get used to but they now no longer suffer from RSI.
            England's greatest sailor since Nelson lost the armada.

            Comment


              #16
              RSI got me a few years ago split ergonomic keyboard did the trick - back on the laptop now but no longer a code monkey.

              https://www.backcs.co.uk/siemens-spl...iABEgKYBfD_BwE
              "why ride a vespa when you can push a lambretta?"

              As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood."

              Comment


                #17
                Originally posted by Major Hassle View Post
                RSI got me a few years ago split ergonomic keyboard did the trick - back on the laptop now but no longer a code monkey.

                https://www.backcs.co.uk/siemens-spl...iABEgKYBfD_BwE
                what's that?

                I had RSI years ago, but taught myself to relax, and stop gripping the sticks so tightly

                Comment


                  #18
                  Originally posted by stek View Post
                  Cut down on the wanking or use your other hand or pay MF 25p to do it.
                  And don't forget to ask for change...
                  His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

                  Comment


                    #19
                    Originally posted by Mordac View Post
                    Originally posted by stek View Post
                    Cut down on the wanking or use your other hand or pay MF 25p to do it.
                    And don't forget to ask for change...

                    Comment


                      #20
                      I've had this problem, this is how I solved it...

                      1) Gel wrist pad - Durable 5749 It's high and firm so does the job.

                      2) Replace mouse with trackpad. I use Apple Trackpad 2, you can download windows drivers that work.

                      I'm fine now as a result.

                      Comment

                      Working...
                      X