pantyfire wrote:I get carpal tunnel in my forearm from extended mouse use and I've tried multiple things to calm it. Vertical mouse didn't work very well for me, the weird hand position made micro movements, like when you are doing cut outs in Photoshop, much harder to control. A wacom tablet and pen was a bit better than a standard but still hurt. In the end I've settled on a combination of a epicondylitis forearm strap (that helps keep the tendons near the elbow straighter) and a larger Microsoft ergonomic mouse that fills my hand more. The strap will not be much use for you I guess because your problem seems to be the repetitive clicking, I don't get pain in my fingers. So, as gurt says, try to reduce the amount of clicks with macros or shortcuts somehow?
digi wrote:Guys what size empty bottle do I need for the 3 hour epic endgame at cinema?
I read something recently that the perceived wisdom of the perfectly set up desk might actually be wrong.GurtTractor wrote:A very important thing that is often missed is just having the desk at the right height, probably down to 0.5cm sort of scale, it can take a lot of tweaking which is a pain. Sometimes arm rests on the chair can help a lot, otherwise you may want to sit deeper into the desk and rest your arms on it. Not sure about wrist rests tbh, I kinda think it's better overall to adjust the desk height and position first. I wouldn't use a wrist rest for a mouse but I do use some nice wooden ones for my keyboards. Speaking of which, I've mentioned this before but I've found that using a small form factor keyboard to be a huge improvement ergonomically. I use a 66 key and a 75%, both of which allow you to have the mouse (or mice either side in my case) much closer to the the keyboard, keeping your wrists at a good angle and meaning the main alphanumeric block is straight ahead which is much better for comfortable typing. But all this stuff is a bit futile ultimately, really I we need to be getting away from sitting at a desk all day, it should be possible by now to get most of our computing done while standing up and moving around. That's why I'm planning on making some efforts to set up voice controls, and maybe some motion gesture control stuff, might get a Wiimote working as a pointer. If I could edit audio while standing up and moving around that would be epic.I get carpal tunnel in my forearm from extended mouse use and I've tried multiple things to calm it. Vertical mouse didn't work very well for me, the weird hand position made micro movements, like when you are doing cut outs in Photoshop, much harder to control. A wacom tablet and pen was a bit better than a standard but still hurt. In the end I've settled on a combination of a epicondylitis forearm strap (that helps keep the tendons near the elbow straighter) and a larger Microsoft ergonomic mouse that fills my hand more. The strap will not be much use for you I guess because your problem seems to be the repetitive clicking, I don't get pain in my fingers. So, as gurt says, try to reduce the amount of clicks with macros or shortcuts somehow?
cockbeard wrote:digi wrote:Guys what size empty bottle do I need for the 3 hour epic endgame at cinema?
Do you prefer girth or length?
GurtTractor wrote:pantyfire wrote:I get carpal tunnel in my forearm from extended mouse use and I've tried multiple things to calm it. Vertical mouse didn't work very well for me, the weird hand position made micro movements, like when you are doing cut outs in Photoshop, much harder to control. A wacom tablet and pen was a bit better than a standard but still hurt. In the end I've settled on a combination of a epicondylitis forearm strap (that helps keep the tendons near the elbow straighter) and a larger Microsoft ergonomic mouse that fills my hand more. The strap will not be much use for you I guess because your problem seems to be the repetitive clicking, I don't get pain in my fingers. So, as gurt says, try to reduce the amount of clicks with macros or shortcuts somehow?
A very important thing that is often missed is just having the desk at the right height, probably down to 0.5cm sort of scale, it can take a lot of tweaking which is a pain. Sometimes arm rests on the chair can help a lot, otherwise you may want to sit deeper into the desk and rest your arms on it. Not sure about wrist rests tbh, I kinda think it's better overall to adjust the desk height and position first. I wouldn't use a wrist rest for a mouse but I do use some nice wooden ones for my keyboards.
Speaking of which, I've mentioned this before but I've found that using a small form factor keyboard to be a huge improvement ergonomically. I use a 66 key and a 75%, both of which allow you to have the mouse (or mice either side in my case) much closer to the the keyboard, keeping your wrists at a good angle and meaning the main alphanumeric block is straight ahead which is much better for comfortable typing.
But all this stuff is a bit futile ultimately, really I we need to be getting away from sitting at a desk all day, it should be possible by now to get most of our computing done while standing up and moving around. That's why I'm planning on making some efforts to set up voice controls, and maybe some motion gesture control stuff, might get a Wiimote working as a pointer. If I could edit audio while standing up and moving around that would be epic.
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