It had never occurred to me that one could start seeing signs of carpal tunnel due to mouse use. I had always assumed that it was restricted to people who typed a lot, like secretaries or data entry clerks.<\/p>\n
About 7 or 8 years ago, I started to play a video game called Diablo<\/a>. This highly addicting game required a ludicrous amount of clicking of the mouse to play. It was even a common joke in gaming circles that the game was making companies that made mice extremely wealthy. After playing this game in excess month after month, I started to notice a slight discomfort radiating up from my right index finger knuckle up to my wrist and a little beyond. Not wanting to cause myself damage, I promptly ended my nightly hack-and-slash fest to let my hand\/wrist recover. Within a week or two, the discomfort went away and did not return – not even when Diablo 2<\/a> came out.<\/p>\n That all changed about a week ago when I started to feel the familiar discomfort again. This time it was more pronounced and actually started to hurt even when I wasn’t using the computer. Needless to say, I was concerned and I decided to swap my mouse from the right side of my keyboard to the left hand and started using it. So far this seems to have helped. I don’t really feel any pain when I type, but I sometimes feel discomfort when I click with my right hand (at home the mouse is still on the right). I regularly stretch it out and massage my forearm, wrist and hand as often as I can. It seems to be helping. I hope I caught it soon enough, before any major damage was done.<\/p>\n It feels pretty good now (I’m typing this from work) and I have to say that I’m getting used to mousing with my “dumb” hand. At first it felt clumsy, despite the fact that I have decent manual dexterity, but I was able to move my cursor directly to where I wanted to all day today. I’m not sure it’s accurate enough for me to switch while gaming, but I’ve cut back on my gaming habits quite a bit for this very reason. We’ll see what happens.<\/p>\n It had never occurred to me that one could start seeing signs of carpal tunnel due to mouse use. I had always assumed that it was restricted to people who typed a lot, like secretaries or data entry clerks. About 7 or 8 years ago, I started to play a video game called Diablo. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}