Home Treatment for Repetitive Stress Injury

Muscle aches can be caused by stress injury, or lack of sleep — or even potassium deficiency. People are more at risk for this kind of deficiency if they take certain medications, such as diuretics and cortisones, or high blood pressure drugs, says Lisa Robertson of the blog “Fighting Fibromyalgia.” People with fibromyalgia or other [...]

Everytime we read a label or look online, there’s someone threatening us about the next Big Disease — cell phones cause cancer, computers cause carpal tunnel, crossing the street can get you run over by a car, video games can make you psychopathic– or do they? Of course we can’t live our lives in fear [...]

Carpal Tunnel syndrome is possibly the injury most commonly associated with computer over-use and repetitive stress injuries, but research has come to show that CTS is often caused by a genetic predisposition, not by overuse and activity. A recent study at Harvard University revealed that biological factors are three times more powerful in causing CTS [...]

A friend of mine broke his arm a while back and told me he was on a lot of ibuprofen — 600 mg doses. I had to laugh, because back when I was suffering regular pain from repetitive stress and tendonitis, I took 800 mg of ibuprofen on a regular basis, sometimes a few times [...]

I’ll never forget the day my Workers’ Comp doctor gave me a packet of Vioxx pain killer to try, after the drug had been pulled from the market. I told him, “I want to heal my arms, not just numb the pain.” Although he admitted that I could hurt myself more by numbing the pain [...]

My foster kitty, Lilah, knows a lot about physiology and health. She hasn’t written books or performed medical research, but she knows how to keep herself flexible and well-rested, and she’s motivated me to stay active, too. Here’s some things I’ve learned from the kitty: Be active in the morning – Cats aren’t really nocturnal, [...]

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 [...]

Here in the SF Bay Area in California, we’re enjoying our annual Indian Summer. When late summer arrives, the fog on the bay rolls away and the temperature’s hot and drier than usual. It’s 80 degrees in my cool kitchen, and all my blinds are closed so the sun can’t heat up my work space [...]

Recovering from RSI depends on more than just your workstation and how you work. It’s also essential to make sure your lifestyle is healthy. Even if you think you can live with the pain for now, think about 3, 5, or 10 years down the line– as we age, our bodies get weaker. It’s harder [...]