Home Treatment for Repetitive Stress Injury

Laptops are great tools for business users and students on the go, but they’re from an ergonomic standpoint they’re badly designed. They lead us to hunch over, push our necks forward and squint at the screen till we look a little too much like Quasimodo… but there are solutions! One is to use a notebook [...]

In previous posts, I’ve written how many types of activities beyond computer use can cause repetitive stress injuries like Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or Golfer’s Elbow or Epicondylitis… anyone from pizza makers to archaeologists to musicians can be at risk of this kind of injury. However, it’s not just your usual motions that put you at [...]

Last week, I mentioned a lot of good alternative therapies you can turn to for pain relief. Of course, you can also perform massage, acupressure and trigger point therapy on yourself. You can use your own fingers, knuckles, even the palm of your hand or elbow. However, you might prefer to use some of the [...]

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 [...]