Home Treatment for Repetitive Stress Injury

A cloth tote bag with a shoulder strap is a good alternative to those plastic grocery bags, because it can help relieve the tension and stress on your arms. Using a tote with a shoulder will shift the weight of your purchases from the small muscles of your hands, to the larger muscles of your [...]

Most doctors and therapists will recommend that after working your body too hard or after an acute injury, that you ice the affected area. Use a cold pack or ice cubes wrapped in a towel, and apply it for twenty minutes, they say. It’s meant to flush the inflammation and resulting stiffness away. If you [...]

The rainy days of winter are come again, and I’m huddling inside with hot chocolate and a purring cat on my lap. It’s pretty cozy, but it’s also been chilly of late! In the winter time, it’s hard to stay warm without pumping up the heater and paying hefty gas bills… meanwhile, when it’s cold, [...]

At Macworld this week, iListen’s creator MacSpeech announced it has licensed the technology used by the common dictation software for the PC, Dragon Naturally Speaking, to create a new application that can be used on Intel Macs. It’s called Dictate and will be shipping in mid-February. You can find out more details about it at [...]

[Update: 2/3/09] Why does a standard mouse hurt so many people? To answer this question, let’s take a look at how the mouse forces us to sit, and why that’s unnatural — then I’ll give a list of some of the alternative choices you have (to get to the list fast, click the More! button). [...]

Before I jump into the list of alternative ergonomic mice that I am working on, I thought it might be wise to say a few words about ways to use a mouse more effectively. There are some simple steps you can take to make your mousing experience a little more comfortable, whether you’re using a [...]