Home Treatment for Repetitive Stress Injury

The old wisdom of stretching says: Hold a stretch 20-30 seconds, to relax your muscles and be able to work out harder afterward. But these static stretches aren’t really effective and may actually weaken muscles, according to a new study from the University of Nevada: The old presumption that holding a stretch for 20 to [...]

You don’t have to join a gym, lift weights or start running to be good to your body. The best way to stay healthy is find hobbies that get you moving, help you meet new people, and that are just downright FUN. Although this blog most often covers medical treatments, therapies and disorders, the best [...]

One of the key issues in ergonomics is that one size never fits all. The petite, five foot tall woman (that’s me) has vastly different needs than the broad-shouldered 6’5″ man. We have different sizes, weights, different abilities to grasp, different shapes and spaces between our fingers and our shoulders. But most product manufacturers don’t [...]

Many old farts, some of them esteemed writers, have warned against the doomsday arrival of the Internet and associated technological advances. Despite the pessimistic forecast of writers like Doris Lessing, the 2007 Nobel prize winner for Literature, who warned against the “inanities” of the Internet (and blogging in particular) — the world isn’t going to [...]

Back when I was seriously suffering from RSI, I spent time dreaming about what a safe, happy and healthy workstation would look like and came up with an entirely new sort of workstation. My story is this: I had some pain in college, but my friends at the time were wonderful massage-a-holics and helped rub [...]

Today’s topic is brought to you by the second giant gas tanker melt down in the East Bay Area in two years. Around 6 am this morning, an Acura crashed into a gas tanker carrying 8,600 gallons of gas on South Interstate 880 in downtown Oakland, right near an area so tangled with freeways it’s [...]

Here’s a great vid about how to protect your back, if you’re working at a computer day after day. It’s fun, it’s got animation, silly sound effects and a few too many puns. So click the linky, watch it for fun and to think about how to protect the only back you’ve got. Watch Your [...]

When you’re in pain, being creative and artistic can be like a good dose of Vitamin I (ibuprofen) or therapy–helping you feel better emotionally, and getting your mind off the pain. Art’s also a great way to express how you feel in ways that don’t need words. Some of the greatest artists have suffered crippling [...]

If you have regular painful flare-ups, or you know someone who does, here’s a new word you’ll want in your RSI vocabulary — tendinosis. It’s an important concept to understand, even if you forget the word itself right away. It Starts with Tendonitis You’re probably familiar with tendonitis (or tendinitis), a common term meaning inflammation [...]

Looking for stretches you can do at work? Forbes has a fun slideshow showing stretches you can do at your desk. It even progresses automatically, so you can stretch without having to click the mouse to see the next activity. Bookmark the slideshow, set a daily alarm in your calendar and do the stretches each [...]