Ask HN: Remedies for RSI?

Post by curej » Sun, Jan 11, 2009, 7:51 PM UTC

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I do have very bad posture. Good suggestions - especially the workout suggestions - my trainer recommended those to me a year ago and I stopped doing them but it was probably a mistake. Those are changes I can easily make to my workout. The rest I didn't know about at all. Thanks.

Remember the key you are going for in your postural work is time. You spend 50+ hours on the keyboard a week. You need to be able to have a [postural] buffer large enough so there are no overflows into poor posture, which means a large work capacity. Do try ART - (activerelease.com has practitioners probably) - it can work wonders. The basic algorithm is to identify the parts of the muscle that are tenser than the re…

Post by AlanEdge » Tue, Jan 13, 2009, 12:46 AM UTC

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Interesting. A few thoughts come to mind: 1) You should be covered by worker's comp (by law), in which case a brief to-the-point conversation with a key decision maker in your company over the trade-off between them covering thousands of dollars of WC coverage vs. allowing you to bring your own chair to work is in order. 2) Habits are formed and habits are broken. If you believe you can't change your sleeping posture…

You are correct on both counts. I will consider how to approach these issues. Thank you.

Post by trapper » Tue, Jan 13, 2009, 9:52 PM UTC

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ART is very different - it couples movement with massage to mechanically stretch out the muscle. It's usually far more effective.

I did some reading on this. Some practitioners claim they can bring about recovery of severe RSI in 3-5 visits. Does this sound realistic based on your experience?