Carpal Tunnel and Other Hand/Wrist Problems

Hi Lainons, do you have any hand/wrist/etc. problems you suffer from? How do you work with them? I feel like this must be a common problem among people who spend a lot of time on computers. I'm starting to develop some issues with my right hand so I'm curious what other people in the same boat do to get through life.

>>13662 I have recurring problems with my left hand from years of guitar playing. Anti-inflammatory meds don't help much. Exercises and rest help a bit. I got some shots in the worst area that helped a little. Looks like it'll take surgery to fix it, which I can't afford.

stretches exercises vertical mouse low-pressure mechanical keyboard get off the computer don't forget to take care of your eyes and back too

>>13662 Try colemak

Had it for 5 years and cured it after reading John Sarno. Turns out it's psychogenic and the cure is to believe it will go away if you ignore it, then ignore it.

>>15539 Howard Stern talked about him quite a bit.

>>15539 If a medical treatment could hit the same level of success as the placebo effect, it would be considered an overwhelmingly effective one. The human mind is a very plastic thing. On a more realistic note, basic strengthening exercises across the whole body will reduce the severity of any injury. Also remember normal motion facilitates good recovery.

I have some issues with my right wrist, but its gotten better since I started thyroid meds of all things.

>>13665 I broke my wrist decades ago. It still hurts when I play guitar, because that's the hand I make chords with. It's the only time it hurts, nothing else requires me to stretch that way.

>>13676 >Get off the computer You can take my mouse, you can take my cherry MX-blue keyboard, but you aren't taking away my 12 hours of gaming and hentai.

>>15608 Ahh, that sugs. Maybe holding the guitar in a different position might help, so your wrist doesn't have to bend the painful way. That helps with my thumb joint a little.

>>15746 Maybe I could learn Jeff Healy style? Sigh... yeah, not really.

>>15595 Strengthening exercises are the only other thing that helped, and I tried everything. My hand was swollen to the point that I couldn't make a closed fist, was mostly purple, and had <1 pound of grip strength because my tendons were on fire. Physical therapy caused about a 30% improvement over 12 weeks then plateaued for 3 years. Considering that the psychogenic treatment caused a permanent 100% improvement in only 3 weeks, I've concluded that at least a good chunk of the improvement from physical therapy came from forcing myself to set aside the belief that using my hand was going to hurt and cause more damage. It still blows my mind.

Here are some exercises that worked for me. The stretches got me through a case where my hand barely worked. They had me do the exercises with a very soft sponge when I went to the doctor years later (Went the first time but he was less useful than the internet) That cleared the rest of it up!

>>15820 Likewise I was amazed how fast my hand recovered after doing stretches

just stop cooming bro

>>13662 could always switch input device. It never happened to me but i know a dude who quit his career cause his hand was wrecked. Was a artist who did line art with mouse. Personally i use a wacom tablet and didn't even experience getting tired. Holding a pen seems to be better than a mouse.

>>13662 I started to feel pain in my wrist/numbness even with a wrist rest, and using a vertical mouse fixed it completely.

>>19193 Top right movement (C) is actually harmful if done fast enough i believe, don't do it.

I picked up an electronic drum kit a while ago and I think holding the stick incorrectly greatly worsened my right wrist, and slightly my left wrist, and that was compounded by a bad setup for working from home (didn't have a desk or proper keyboard for a while) that stressed my wrists a lot. Breaking from drums and improving my home setup has helped a lot but I'm still getting mild pain when using a mouse. Ordered a vertical mouse in hopes that will help, should arrive tomorrow. Any other lains have any experience with vertical mouses? >>13665 >>15746 >>15754 I saw Michael Angelo Batio live just before the pandemic shut everything down. Guy is 64 and still shreds like he did in the 80s. He spoke a bit about proper finger positioning and strap height being important to avoid carpal tunnel.

>>19195 good advice

I suffer from Parkinsonistic dyskinesia over my entire body as a side effect of some antipsychotics medication I used to take. I find it telling that a U.K. court ruled that one cannot give informed consent to hormone therapy under the age of 16, but apparently 13 year olds, who were never even informed of all the known side effects can freely consent to such drugs that will destroy their fine motor control for the rest of their lives. They are hardly informed of anything and simply told “Here, take this; this will be good for you.” by their parent, who is told so by a psychiatrist and this is fine.

>>23943 restles leg is actually a good thing and shouldnt be stopped. It amps up blood circulation and works against the negative effects of longterm sitting. All the teachers&parents telling you to stop were idiots and this is official research published somewhere this decade. (i have no sense of time)

I had severe CTS in both hands for 4 years. It would have only been 2 years if I had read this when I heard about it instead of dismissing it for sounding like BS and then going back and reading it after everything else failed. It basically tells you how to activate the full power of the placebo effect (which is strong enough to completely cure it) without using a sham treatment as the trigger.

I've been playing bass for about about a year now and my wrist is starting to hurt on both hands. I've even noticed my pinkie finger on my left hand going tingly (like it fell asleep). I'm going to ask another bassist to check over my technique but I'm following the youtube tutorials to a t (tea? tee?), I am pretty much forced to grip the neck with my whole hand to prevent pain. Between this and somewhat medium to heavy computer usage I'm a little worried.

I worked a supermarket checkout for years, and had carpal in one hand and RSI in the other. I fixed both by ice and heat packs; deep tissue massage kneading the myofascia between the carpals; good typing technique, keeping the wrists straight when using the fingers so the tendons don't have to turn a corner when pulling; and taking fish oil and turmeric with black pepper as a potentiator every day. I had some bad tendonitis in my shoulder after I snapped a log when I was angry at a neighbour, which kept up for two years, but that cleared up after I took a friend's personal trainer's advice (she is apparently a champion weightlifter or something), and started eating a soykaf ton of greens every day. I also got one of those little rubber hearts from The Heart Foundation and a pair of Chinese medicine balls for exercise.

>>24061 I also had the pinkie side of my hand go permanently numb, but that turned out to be from leaning on a nerve in my elbow with my mouse hand, and that cleared up as soon as I stopped.

>>13662 Weirdly enough I don't have any hand/wrist issues, despite being 40 and having been a typing-constantly nerd since about age 10. I think I got lucky on genetics in general. I look about 10 years younger than I am, and don't have any of the usual medical issues that my age cohort starts to suffer from at my age. I rarely exercise, but I've also avoided tobacco/alcohol/processed sugar for my entire adult life, so it's probably a wash health-wise.

I chipped the end of my knuckle and now grip strength has changed from being reliable to sketchy. Is there anything to be done about that? I don't think the bone structure is going to re-form there but I don't like being a clutz who drops things

>>13662 I've recently started dealing with it. I'm trying to abstain from using my computer for over a month to give my hands time to heal. They are mostly, but as soon as I use the computer my mouse hand hates me; it's in both hands though. Been trying to remeber to splint them at night. I have the bean bag cushions for my keyboard and mouse, and I'm looking for a new ergonomic mouse. Been following the exercises in the pdf, which seem to help. Also been splitting at night, and have some good wrist compressions; there called Incendiware, and were the only decent things I could find on Amazon, though they aren't cheap. I just hope I can reverse it. I don't want to end up stuck with this soykaf so soon. Anyone know how well infrared light works to help or joint supplement pills?

I've successfully defeated my chronic masturbation habit, purely because I decided doing it so often, three or four times a day, was bad for my wrists. I think about it, but it stopped bothering me after the first day or two. I just broke my streak of five days, and am committed to not masturbating more than once a day from now on. I'm proud of myself.

I get it mainly when I put my laptop on my chest and type >>19193 >>19194 nice