I’m perusing The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief and thought I would share a quote from the introduction: “There is growing evidence that most of our common aches and pains–and many other puzzling physical complaints–are actually caused by tigger points, or small contraction knots, in the muscles of the body. …
Category: Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI)
Avoiding RSI
An article posted online at Forbes today addresses RSI: “Avoiding Repetitive Strain Injury” It’s interesting that the article shows up in a business magazine. Previously, carpal tunnel syndrome and RSI have been afflictions mainly associated with computer professionals. It just goes to show you anyone who spends a lot of time at the keyboard is…
TextMouse Software
Textmouse is a program in development that is supposed to help with mouse-related RSI by converting Web pages to numbers that you can press on your keyboard’s number pad, thus eliminating the need to point and click with the mouse. “The TextMouse Web Executive – RSI Web browser utilizes a keyboard-based paradigm that makes use…
Children Getting Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
It used to be that Carpal Tunnel Syndrome was something adults got, and even then, you didn’t expect to see symptoms before you’d spent 15 or 20 years in the workforce (hacking away at a keyboard 40 hours a week), but now, according to a recent online news article, children are getting repetitive stress injuries…
Stop Slouching! Or Why We All Have Problems with Back Pain
It’s no secret that back pain plagues a lot of adults today, and slouching at the computer (or especially at the laptop) may be a contributer according to reporter Jodi Mailander Farrell in Your mother was right. Slouching is bad for you. If you read the article, skim through the stuff on runway models (apparently…
RSI Support Groups
If you’re dealing with RSI or Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, sometimes surfing the web or joining mailing lists is counter-productive (after all, you probably need to give your hands a break). An article called Support Groups for Chronic Pain and RSI offers ideas for finding real life support groups in your area. The article also has…
Laptops Causing Repetitive Strain Injuries?
Laptops, due to their emphasis on compactness, lose a lot in the area of ergonomics. One of the problems, CNET news article Is Your Laptop a Pain in the Neck says, is that people are using them as full time replacements for their computers. The keyboards aren’t as easy on the fingers as today’s ergonomic…
Flextend AC Kit–Add-on To the Original Glove
Flextend makes a glove with rubber tubing that helps you exercise the muscles in your hand to combat symptoms of RSI. They’re going to be expanding on their orginal glove with a new add-on kit. Flextend alone focuses on the muscles in the hand, but the AC Kit is designed to work on strengthening the…
Foam Roller for RSI Help?
I’ve recently joined a new gym and one of the physical trainers there introduced me to something called a foam roller. It’s a three foot wide dense foam cylinder, maybe about 6 inches thick. You basically put it on the ground, then roll your muscle over it (pretty much any muscles in the body, legs,…