As someone who has suffered considerable wrist pain in the past, I would suggest you check out the works of Pete Egoscue, whose exercise methods were a lifesaver for me.
If you are in as bad a shape as I was, you’ll likely have to spend many hours a week to recover, but I’ve found maintenance to be much easier; many months I don’t even spend an hour on it, even though I spend even more time on my keyboard than ever. (But the initial recovery process was hellish, I don’t mind telling you. Mostly because I hated spending so much time on the exercises, but also because of the existing pain and fear of pain on my part.)
Even so, given the choice between even the best voice recognition and being able to type without pain, I choose the latter.
What sort of hours are you logging on your keyboard these days? It looks like Mr. Egoscue has quite a catalog, could I impose on you to narrow down which books you found helpful, please? I live in South Korea, so getting a non-kindle book shipped over the ocean is a non-trivial undertaking.
What sort of hours are you logging on your keyboard these days?
I spend all day at my computer, but not all of every day is spent typing. One or two days a week I program most of the day, and a few weeks ago I spent part of a week writing about 40 pages of raw text, and then editing and desktop-publishing it into a 50 page ebook.
could I impose on you to narrow down which books you found helpful, please?
I found the Egoscue Method (his 1993 book) to be most informative and motivational regarding the actual functional anatomy. Some of his newer works have shorter sequences of exercises to accomplish similar goals, but the total time difference isn’t substantial -- a few minutes shaved off an hour’s work. For whatever reason, I never found Pain-Free At Your PC very motivating to me personally to do the routines in it, though I did try some of the exercises.
Excellent, thanks for the recommendation and for your information. I’ve bought his book “Pain-free at your PC” and I’ve started doing the exercises. so far the results are encouraging, but it’s too early to tell whether or not this will be the solution I’ve been after.
As someone who has suffered considerable wrist pain in the past, I would suggest you check out the works of Pete Egoscue, whose exercise methods were a lifesaver for me.
If you are in as bad a shape as I was, you’ll likely have to spend many hours a week to recover, but I’ve found maintenance to be much easier; many months I don’t even spend an hour on it, even though I spend even more time on my keyboard than ever. (But the initial recovery process was hellish, I don’t mind telling you. Mostly because I hated spending so much time on the exercises, but also because of the existing pain and fear of pain on my part.)
Even so, given the choice between even the best voice recognition and being able to type without pain, I choose the latter.
What sort of hours are you logging on your keyboard these days? It looks like Mr. Egoscue has quite a catalog, could I impose on you to narrow down which books you found helpful, please? I live in South Korea, so getting a non-kindle book shipped over the ocean is a non-trivial undertaking.
I spend all day at my computer, but not all of every day is spent typing. One or two days a week I program most of the day, and a few weeks ago I spent part of a week writing about 40 pages of raw text, and then editing and desktop-publishing it into a 50 page ebook.
I found the Egoscue Method (his 1993 book) to be most informative and motivational regarding the actual functional anatomy. Some of his newer works have shorter sequences of exercises to accomplish similar goals, but the total time difference isn’t substantial -- a few minutes shaved off an hour’s work. For whatever reason, I never found Pain-Free At Your PC very motivating to me personally to do the routines in it, though I did try some of the exercises.
Excellent, thanks for the recommendation and for your information. I’ve bought his book “Pain-free at your PC” and I’ve started doing the exercises. so far the results are encouraging, but it’s too early to tell whether or not this will be the solution I’ve been after.