Carpel tunnel syndrome - help?/Cort

March 27, 2006

Hi, Cort.

" cortttt " <cortttt@...> wrote:

>

> I'm starting to get bad carpal tunnel syndrome. Does anybody know how

> to help this condition?

***I got a bad case a few years back.

What cleared it up was two fold. One, use avoidance. Stop using the hand,

wrist or arm being troubled, particularly regarding the same or similar behavior

you associate with causing the syndrome.

***That allows a healing phase. Then two, pinpoint more accurately what the

exact issue was that caused the problem. I realized I had been typing on the

key board with my left arm raised too high and pressing too hard on the edge of

the desk, unwittingly pinching a nerve.

***A doc said there are surgeries and medications if the above didn't work, but

it all eventually cleared up with time and the stated adjustments as I resumed

typing again with lefty.

March 28, 2006

I've felt it much more since subscribing to CFSExperimental - I do

think it would help if people would write as short notes as possible,

and be sure to cut off any and list info headers from their replies.

I'm on several lists and they never ever have as much scrolling to do

as this one (many involve more messages, yet are a third or less the

length of the shortest quartile of Experimental digests), yet I don't

want to miss anything and couldn't handle the volume of individual

mails either, which would involve at least as much mouse work.

And a personal plea to people who have simple person-to-person

comments - to do send them off the list, and to people who take a few

days off from the list - to check FAQs, Google, and the list archives

before asking 'what is something?' when people refer to something

that has evidently been under discussion for some time.

I don't mean to be a complainer - I appreciate this list - and I

realize some short messages can only be understood by quoting the

thread to which they belong, but, in general, if people would

consider whether they really need every word in their messages sent

to 2000 people before hitting 'send', it would help a lot of numb

wrists, I think.

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