Hello there,
I've just recently joined this list and was wondering if there are any
others on it who are software developers with RSI. If so, would you be
willing to share your experiences and strategies for coping with it?

My own situation is that I first started getting pain in my fingers and
wrists whilst using computers four years ago, whilst I was still at
university. I visited the student medical practice and the doctor there was
sympathetic, but only advised that I take one ibuprofen a day if I knew I
was going to be doing a lot of computer-based work or if I started to have
pain. Since then it's not been too much of a problem - by Friday of each
week my hands would start to ache, but they'd be fine again on Monday. More
recently I've started having more regular and often more intense pain and
have consequently found out more about the condition and realised that that
there are things that can be done about it other than just numbing the pain.
I've just converted my keyboard to Dvorak layout (so typing is extremely
slow at present, which is helping with my current symptoms) and I'm going to
go and see my GP about it. I've thought about voice recognition software,
but am not convinced that it'll be useful considering that much of my typing
is in programming languages rather than in English.

Has anyone in a similar situation got any ideas?

Best regards,
Ed Jannoo




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