Save Your Wrists

Your Health — March 3, 2011 at 21:44 — no comments

If you’re like me, you use your hands a lot.

In this day and age, we spend so much time in front of the computer that our arms and hands get a real workout using the mouse, keyboard, or touchpad.

Add to that playing the piano, using a digital camera, game consoles, and even good old fashioned handwriting – and it all adds up to wrist pain, tendinitis and even carpal tunnel syndrome. Left unaddressed, repetitive strain injuries can become debilitating.

I type for a living, and take pictures and play piano for fun. Both have become far less enjoyable the last year, as I’ve noticed some severe stabbing pain in my wrist.

Exercise, targeted massage, creams and essential oils have all helped some, but I’m told by the medical professionals that the thing that’s going to make the most difference is simply using my wrist less. That’s a challenge when, as I mentioned, I type for living.

Enter Dragon dictation.

I am so delighted to have found this fabulous software program no. It allows me to speak what I want to say rather than having to type it. In fact I’m using it right now to dictate this post.