Carpal Tunnel.
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- baseline_shift
Anybodys wrist ever hurt in the evening after clickin' around creative suite and int0r-web all day?
Got a gel cushion for my wrist and an ergo-mouse, but that doesnt do too much. And the wacom tablet is obtrusive to work with type and layouts, or browse internet.
My mouse hand wrist makes clicking noises when i rotate it, and it didn't a year or two ago.
Anyone else effected? Remedies? Sarcastic comments?
- EKUL0
wacom
- wack'emEKUL
- Cant use it for internet or type. Did you read the post?baseline_shift
- oh sorry! i use it for everything / cant do anything withoutEKUL
- yeah, no prob. i just cant use it for certain things.baseline_shift
- twentyone130
Usually the biggest sign of Carpal Tunnel is numbness in your hands.
- 7point340
its caused from too much pressure/damage to circulation on the wrist. try to position your hands so that you don't rest your wrists on anything.
- harlequino0
Used to have this quite often. Make sure you're taking breaks to flex your hands and fingers, don't keep them in the same position.
Also, make sure your mouse hand is parrallel to the floor. Don;t let it rest on the edge of the table or even a pad things can be bad. Adjust your chair/table so it's parallel. That should help.
- magnificent_ruin0
extend your arm straight out, palm up, and bend each finger downwards (backwards) for 3 seconds, followed by all four non-thumb fingers for 3 seconds. do this a few times a day and I think you'll see a gradual improvement to normalcy
- That's just a warm up for aggressive ball cupping.harlequino
- ill try this out. (the ball cupping i mean :P )baseline_shift
- it worked for memagnificent_ruin
- TheFatBaron0
3 things helped me (the doctor diagnosed it as plain old tendonitis, not carpal tunnel):
1) A wrist brace. The type that has a loop around the thumb, then goes around the wrist.
2) The wrist gel cushion thing.
3) Putting a rolled-up hoodie/towel under my elbow. The doctor said part of my problem was where the desk was hitting my elbow, so adding a little padding underneath helped, alot.
- nice i just did up a elbow cuhion and its shwing...my arm is big pimpinzman
- ninjasavant0
I got em pretty bad. the wrist brace is key.
- magnificent_ruin0
nothing says badass like a wrist brace
- I would tell everyone I'm a ninja :)designbot
- bad ass designer = not very badassmagnificent_ruin
- WrappedInBooks0
I had inflammation if the Ulnar nerve (cubital tunnel syndrome) and my doctor gave me an exercise to strengthen the trapezius. Basically the nerve running through the shoulder gets stretched because your traps are weak.
The exercise: Extend your arms out, so your hand is above the shoulder, and then make a circular motion (kind of like a breast stroke, but smaller).
It helped me.
- designbot0
It's seriously time to do away with antiquated mouse/keyboard combo.
- Me? Or the industry in general?baseline_shift
- the industry in general...computers have pretty much been using the same interface since the dawn of the personal computer.designbot
- personal computer.designbot
- nicole_marie0
i get horrible muscle twitches in my hand near my thumb, and it will cramp up real bad. usually when i have a deadline.
- flashbender0
my wrist hurts from something else.
ZING!
- EKUL0
6th sense!
- ArmandoEstrada0
As stated above, Wacom tablet pretty much took my pain away. Learn to use it.
- Do you use it for type setting? I do this a lot at work. Ive found it takes 3 times as long to do anything with a tablet.baseline_shift
- tgqt0
I got carpal tunnel during a bicycle ride across the US in 1998.
So bad that I was unable to exibit any dexterity for months. A year later I still had no control over my pinkys. I am in pain everyday.
- killthefish0
I use trackballs. But they are becoming much rare.
- they've always been rare, but there is a lot of people that use themMeeklo