- Regular physical fitness like doing weight training, push-ups, and pull-ups (if you can manage those) can help greatly

- Swimming is one of the best exercises if you have access to a pool since it is zero-body impact. Look at Total Immersion’s “Swim like a Fish”

- Your greatest asset is your ability to produce income for yourself and your family. RSI forces you to preserve that asset, even if degraded

- Playing guitar, tennis, piano, even bowling will become activities that you can no longer partake in

- Those damn key combinations (ctrl-c, ctrl-v) when done with one hand if you are lazy are really bad and can cause RSI to flare up

- Foam rollers are one of the cheapest and therapeutic things you can do for yourself

- Not taking the ability to type for granted will gift you a glimpse at a long-term perspective on life

- Like diets, there is no one-size fits all solution. Try out before you are sold.

- If you have pain or soreness after a binge of coding and it goes away after a night of rest, that is a warning sign. Eventually the recovery periods will lengthen. And eventually there will be no true recovery, but a baseline pain/soreness

- It takes many years to get RSI but you can do it quicker if you pound away at the keyboard day and night. Same for video games

- RSI will become just another part of your life. You will manage. You will survive. You just won’t go bowling.