My right shoulderblade has been getting a tingling feeling and numbness over
the last couple of months, I wonder if this has something to do with it.  It
doesn't hurt, but it's very noticable, and very annoying.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Sinland [mailto:rsinland at gvtel.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 11:25 PM
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] RSI symptoms
> 
> 
> Jay W. Anderson wrote:
> 
> > This is exactly what I'm dealing with currently, and my 
> first thought 
> > when I read Tim's post.
> > 
> > I thing what Phil said:
> > 
> > ...
> > "Sit up straight and KEEP YOUR WRISTS UP."
> > 
> > Whenever I find myself getting sloppy, or slouching, or resting my
> > hands on the keyboard -...
> > 
> > has a lot to do with this as well.  What bothers me the most is not 
> > the typing, but sitting and using the mouse while working 
> in AutoCAD 
> > all day.  If I have the keyboard where it should be, I'm 
> straining to 
> > reach and hold/work the mouse which effects the muscles of 
> the upper 
> > back and neck.
> > 
> > Jay
> > 
>   Like I said, I bet if you go to a chiro, they will find one 
> or more knots
> 
> in your back and neck..  What they did for me was hook me up 
> to what I 
> called a "fencer"  A dealybob that would shock the muscles 
> with electric
> impulses and cause them to fatigue and relax.  There is a 
> more tech name 
> for it, but at times it feels like hitting an electric fence, 
> hence my 
> nick name :)
> Inferencser (sp) comes to mind, something like that anyway...
> I just learned to live with it, though I had to give up 
> playing guitar :)
> No loss to the world there :)
> And as far as the rest goes, mousing is prolly worse then 
> keyboarding as
> far as agravating it.
> RS
> 
> 
> 
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