Home Treatment for Repetitive Stress Injury

When you work full time, especially if it means chronic pain in your arms and hands, every part of life can start to feel overwhelming — the last thing you want to do is wade through a bunch of old blog entries to find the easy ways to make things better. So here is a [...]

Do you remember that faux pas made by Ted Stevens, the corrupt Alaska Senator, when he tried to explain how the Internet worked? “The Internet is not a dump truck,” he stammered, “it’s a series of tubes.” He earned a lot of ridicule, because it’s not a very accurate explanation for Internet traffic. However, it [...]

Recently we wrote to describe and explain how compression at the thoracic outlet can cause pain, stiffness and problems throughout the arms. The problem remains that many doctors don’t know how to diagnose or remedy the problem. You can help your doctors by learning more about your own condition, pay careful attention to your symptoms, [...]

The thoracic outlet is the region connecting your chest and neck to your shoulder, where bundles of nerves and arteries pass through to supply sensation or blood to your arms. If they get compressed for a few minutes at a time, it won’t affect the blood flow or nerve sensation significantly–but if you spend too [...]

Scar tissue forms around a muscle, tendon or ligament after it’s torn, in order to bind it together and prevent future injuries. Scar tissue often criss-crosses across the normal, healthy tissue, so although it helps the healing process, it can also reduce the flexibility of the area. Most people have experienced some kind of injury, [...]

If you’re longing for a laptop and thinking about getting the cheap mini-notebooks like the EEE PC instead (retailing around $300), think again. The price tag is sweeter, but the mini-computers cost less because they can’t do as much for you as a full size desktop or laptop. Instead, mini-computers fill a niche between a [...]

Are you careful with your ergonomic set up even while you’re on the go? On Smartphones, laptops, and other devices, it’s harder to make sure your posture is correct, and that you’re doing things the ergonomic way. According to BT, a UK-based company providing IT networking services, 54% of managers believe that mobile workers have [...]

There are lots of software programs out there to help make typing and mousing quicker and easier — and that means less clicks to make your wrists and fingers twinge with overuse pain. Gmail Labs recently opened up some new apps for Gmail that can make navigation a bit quicker and easier, like the following: [...]

I once read an account of the peace negotiations following the Second World War-secretaries stayed up all night, painstakingly typing and retyping official documents. Since this was before the computer era, they used typewriters, and had to retype any page where edits or errors were made. On reading the historical accounts, my wrists twinged and [...]

Ah, the holidays, a time of great shopping, wrapping, baking, eating — and dish washing. If that’s all done you can sit back and relax, but even if you have a mountain of dishes ahead of you, you can be thankful. I despise dish washing, but have found a bright healthy lining under all those [...]