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To: LTBH who wrote (623)	5/8/1998 9:31:00 AM
From: pae	Respond to of 14778

CTS... My own experience is that I feel it coming on: kind of an ache in the the right wrist. I drive my other systems (tradestation only) mouse with my left hand (there was a small coordination learning curve here initially) and never get the pain there. When the right wrist starts to ache, I either move the right hand system (spreadsheet, browsers, quicken, etc.) mouse to be reachable by left hand only, or use a weight-lifting fingerless glove/wrist wrap to essentially immobilize the right wrist forcing me to mouse with whole arm motion. I've found that using the glove/brace while lifting weights (strictly minor league and irregularly) reduces complementary injury particularly from arm curls. I haven't engaged in a major home construction/destruction project for a while, but I've thought that the glove/brace might prove valuable there also. So far so good. Keeping fingers crossed, knocking or wood (fiberboard & formica?) etcetera. Cheers.

To: LTBH who wrote (623)	5/8/1998 12:00:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>?? Dump it. You know that'll make spots. And just WHAT, might I ask, is so bad about spots? Seems like everybody's out to get rid of spots. Can't turn on the damn TV without hearing about some sort of spot remover or other. <GGG> Yeah, I rode APM from 18 to 12 (NOT short, unfortunately). That was enough intellectual achievement in that sector for a while, so I bailed. :( Gave me a distinct pain in the hip, right around the wallet area (EWS - empty- wallet syndrome). I use a Kensington trackball but operate it with fingertips and arm motion. I don't like the 4-button Kensington myself, even though it was nice to program 1 key for double click. The front buttons required too much wrist action to get to (move forward and click over the ball). In fact, it was while using the 4-button Kensington that I first started getting wrist pain. So I reverted to the older 2-button. For my hand the button positions are far superior than the 4-button -- higher and farther back. I rotate the ball with index and middle fingertips, which I can use a forearm motion to control for large excursions. That DOES help a lot. Avoid wrist contact with anything like the plague. Programmed a chord (both buttons together) for double click, which I can do with the whole arm also (thumb and ring finger). That avoids the horrible double click double hammer. Similarly programmed CTL-Chord for drag. The drag is the real strain-saver too, but I keep forgetting it <gg>. Oddly, I use a wrist rest with my keyboard which is entirely different from wrist contact near the mouse, though I put the back of the palms on it, not wrists. I recently blocked up my chair arms so I can actually use them (I sit tall but have VERY short upper arms and can't touch the armrests in a normal chair). Now that I can rest my elbows, I may try dumping the keyboard wrist rest. I'm PO'ed at the manufacturer anyhow (3M). I do very much think this is on point for a dream machine. No use spending several thou for a hunk of iron you can't operate. Spots