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Post by kilburn » Mon, Feb 24, 2014, 7:18 AM UTC

reality_czech wrote: post #14

Jetrel wrote: post #5

Having suffered with RSI for quite a few years, I've found that the best preventative+restorative tool is a wrist-brace. The moment I feel any pain, on it goes - whether I'm going to type more or not, the brace is necessary to take the strain off and allow the wrist to recuperate. I really regret not discovering that a few months sooner, because I may have done some permanent damage. The problem is that (counterintui…

Dr. Pascarelli recommends against the use of wrist rests while typing: "The use of wrist rests is controversial. I prefer to call them wrist guides and ask my patients to use them only as guides, because resting the forearms on a wrist support while keying can be harmful for several reasons. First, they take the upper arms out of the process of keying, so you are overloading the forearm and hand muscles and increasin…

I'm under the impression that this doctor's argument is against wrist rests, as in the padded thing you put in front of the keyboard to rest your wrists on. Instead, the comment you are replying to speaks about a wrist brace, as in a bracelet that restricts certain wrist movements and redistributes wrist stress to a larger area in your arm.

Some of the caveats may apply, but I would say that the bulk of your comment does not...