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

[Mark Sottilaro <zerocrossing@gmail.com>]

Those were exactly my symptoms (as well as bad shoulder blade area
pain).  Buy the book. :)  I just heard an interview of Tom Bergeron
and he had the exact same experience after reading the Sarno stuff.

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:08 PM, 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.
>
> best - tilmann
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