Re: OT: was back pain, now mouse-hand pain

["L.Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

i dont know how you guys can explore so much software,plugins etc. it 
requires hours of sitting in front of the PC and staring at the screen,i 
suffer from backaches and my eyes arent the best either so for me it d be 
impossible to explore all of the great  stuff you guys talk about here
sometimes even the LD emails are enough for me!
Luis

www.myspace.com/luisangulocom


--- Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> schrieb am Do, 14.5.2009:

> Von: Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>
> Betreff: Re: OT: was back pain, now mouse-hand pain
> An: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Datum: Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2009, 0:38
> Very important knowledge, Tilman!
> What you can do as well, if having
> to work hard with a computer, is to switch over to a laptop
> with track
> pad every second hour. Then don't click with the right
> hand's index
> finger but with the thumb. What I do as well is to shift
> fingers and
> hands all the time. Juggle over the mouse for the left
> hand. If that
> doesn't feel comfortable for you, just make some lovely
> caffe latta
> and dring it with your right hand while mousing a way with
> the left.
> And move cup far away from keybard! ;-))  After ruing
> a couple of
> keyboards in the past I am today a Master Keyboard Non
> Destroyer. But
> my sons keep pouring milk and stuff into their machines.
> Seems it
> takes a couple of generations for the gene pool to adapt
> properly...
> (ouch, will stop typing this post now since it starts
> turning into
> nonsense....)
> 
> Greetings from Sweden
> 
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se
> www.perboysen.com
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Tilmann Dehnhard <tilmann@dehnhard.com>
> wrote:
> > dear fellow loopers, please be very careful with the
> computer mouse.
> > after mixing a recording using almost only the mouse i
> had terrible pain in
> > the hand and inflammation around the elbow. my right
> hand got slow and kind
> > of numb. i changed to the left hand for a year. took
> some serious
> > conditioning to stop reaching for the mouse with the
> right hand...
> > today i am able to switch hands whenever fatigue and
> stress build up.
> > letting go of the mouse when not in use and simply
> moving and massaging the
> > fingers regularly has helped me, too.
> >
> > one of the main problems is that the mouse-clicking
> finger joints do
> > experience stress from the operation. unfortunately
> the movement is too
> > small to trigger blood circulation and other
> recreative measures usually
> > maintained by the body.
> > this was discovered when a condition surfaced called
> the "sms-thumb" - a
> > terrible stinging pain in the thumb from using
> cellulars for messaging.
> >
> 
>