How to deal with repetitive strain injury

Core Tip: the common phenomenon of repetitive strain injury tenosynovitis and carpal tunnel syndrome. Currently, work-related carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) has been accounted for in the nation for all patients with repetitive motion disorders ratio of more than 41%. Complications of work-related carpal tunnel syndrome. Hard work never hurt anyone, in fact, not the case.

Office work should be the same, to work long hours every day, as partners with the computer, the main movement of finger movement, or in the keyboard or the click of a mouse. There is a saying in China called "too far". In other words, you can be continuously for a long time sitting in a chair beating mouse will not hurt to own it? How to avoid the occurrence of such damage?

From a structural point of view of the body, we are not suitable as it is now we are engaged in a lot of work as sedentary fixed or long-running precision mechanical movements. There is evidence that, in a normal posture for too long, or repeat Games cause pain in the neck, limbs and back, the condition referred to as over-use syndrome or repetitive strain injury --- RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury).

RSI is not a small problem. According to statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor (Bureau of Labor Statistics), resulting in the loss of working time injury and illness, and it accounted for 34%, also even with $ 20 billion in economic losses. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences (The National Academy of Science), the enterprise annually as a result of repetitive strain disorders staff sick leave, the decline in production capacity and medical expenses and loss of income is estimated to be as high as $ 50 billion.

You want to know how the radical mouse hand, why cause a mouse hand?

We now use the mouse remains the first invented forty years ago, the basic appearance, mouse 'lying' on the desktop, the left and right buttons parallel to the desktop, the operation of this mouse, wrist dorsiflexion certain angle, the palm side of the desktop contact backlog, carpal tunnel pressure increases at the long-term repeated extrusion friction, so that through the nerves and the blood vessels are injured, to produce the corresponding symptoms, not only is the wrist, since the use certain abduction when the shoulder, forearm Twirl long operation will lead to the neck and arm fatigue is not now on the dependence of the mouse and the frequency of use for 40 years can not be compared, and the shortcomings of the previous mouse appearance on the show is undoubtedly, if you can not change the basic shape, the prevention and control of the mouse hand we talk about.

"Mouse hand" refers to the prolonged use of the mouse, repeated mechanical activity two fingers, affecting the wrist caused by the movement of the hand disease. Is a friend of her right palm often intermittent tingling massage a few times, at first it numb now becoming more serious, sometimes asleep will be "Ma" wake. In fact, six months ago, she found that the right hand cramps drag your mouse easy, after the symptoms get worse, now not only palm numb, and the neck, the shoulders have a sense of pain, and sometimes even turned around difficult.

HE company noted that the mouse hand, corporation with the Dutch ergonomics experts designed specifically for Japan and South Korea national users of ergonomic vertical grip mouse, HEmouse with them the more prominent features: simple appearance give full consideration to the upper extremity impact, fingers, wrists, forearms and shoulders are fully taken into account, is a clenched vertical mouse; the third flexible operation, easy to adapt to, and now a lot of people in general reaction is difficult to change the operating habits , can not meet the vertical mouse; the HE ergonomic vertical mouse is an ergonomic mouse with a specially designed according to the Asian-hand; simple, easy to operate.

Vertical mouse is designed to natural vertical purpose is to reduce the long valgus posture grip mouse wrist causing pressure and pain. The mouse is vertical when the user must put the hand in a natural upright position. This hand-posture avoid flip of the arm to ease the pressure on the wrist and carpal tunnel. A lot of people suffering from RSI are using special vertical design of the mouse. If you are using the mouse for a long time people may wish to try this mouse to avoid suffering from RSI.

HE ergonomic vertical mouse, changing little habits can keep you away from the RSI.