Re:Ask HN: wrist pain
by thinksketch on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @04:10PM
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I too developed really bad wrist pain - mine was from too much autocad and solidworks.
My secrets were to:
1. Use a good chair and keyboard tray. always.
2. train my left hand to mouse and switch off
3. use an upright mouse. http://www.evoluent.com/ It's a little expensive, but it's a good product. I now have one for each hand so i can switch off everyone once in a while.
4. Also - wean yourself off the little mouse scroll wheel. Use window zooming for cad and hold down the middle button to scroll on web pages.
My secrets were to: 1. Use a good chair and keyboard tray. always. 2. train my left hand to mouse and switch off 3. use an upright mouse. http://www.evoluent.com/ It's a little expensive, but it's a good product. I now have one for each hand so i can switch off everyone once in a while. 4. Also - wean yourself off the little mouse scroll wheel. Use window zooming for cad and hold down the middle button to scroll on web pages.