Re: Apples and RSI...

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

B.J. Major (bjblackbear@ibm.net) wrote:
: Dave:  People think carpal tunnel syndrome affects only keyboard
: pounders--but it doesn't.  A mother of a friend of mine has it in BOTH
: hands--she doesn't even use a computer, but is a pianist.  I've also heard
: that factory workers and people in occupations such as butchers, etc. also
: experience this very painful injury.

: You can't count typewriters, because they were not used for as many hours
: straight as computers *normally* are in today's world.  The bottom line
: is--take breaks and take care of your wrists.  Even people I know who have
: the surgery tell me that they are never the same and still have to limit
: their keyboard usage to a few hours a day - so don't think that just
: because this problem didn't surface years earlier for you that you'll never
: get it or are not prone to it.  Take care!


I should jet back a moment.

The main point was that I have used Apples for years, almost exclusively,
for years, and a single marathon session on a PC with a big fat Microsoft
mouse resulted in a sore wrist.  The main point is that when I am using
the A][ keyboards (IIgs or ][e; usually IIgs), nothing hurts.  When I use
the PC's for far shorter periods of time, I get those little warnings that
tell me I am doing bad things to my hands.  The hypothesis here is that as
the computers become more widespread, the input devices are getting
cheaper, and the design is not nearly as good.  I hope that makes sense...
 8-)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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