Tips on preventing and managing RSI
Posted by Boris Mann on August 11, 2006 at 4:18pm
This is re-posted with permission from the Consulting mailing list, posted by Benjamin Maurice of Agaric Design.
First, to everybody out there: once you get RSI, the first thing you learn is the best way to get rid of it is to not get it in the first place . Follow proper typing practices (good posture, hands more or less at a right angle, get an ergonomic keyboard and mouse now). Some people go so far as to say that once you have RSI all you can do is manage it, not cure it, and while I'm not sure of that, preventing it is definitely the best idea.
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