I've never had Carpal tunnel so I'm not sure.
My laptop made a correct sitting posture difficult. I was afraid that was going to give me carpal tunnel. Not to mention that I sitting in a foling chair for a good week if not more >.>
So what I did was (well first I got a different chair, much more comfortable) I put the laptop on top of a wooden stand, raised it 2-3 inches. Makes it much easier to look at it correctly and retain posture.
The problem is my arms. I have to raise them pretty high now, and I sort of have to bend my wrists to get at the keys correctly.
After a few hours a kind of ache set into, not my wrist or hand, but my upper arm. I'm thinking at this point it's just muscle fatigue. But I'm wondering if CST can take root in parts of the body besides the hands/wrists. Besides which I'm not actually sure how effective it is in helping to begin with.
Been trying to hunt down exercises against CST and other countermeasures like short breaks every hour or so. Is it a bad sign if trying to do this exercise is difficult to maintain? I could barely go up to 7 repetitions.
Speaking of exercise, a remember seeing another thread on CST where a member talked about an exercise with weights involving the wrists that they did to help fend of CST, anyone know anything about those?
Also looking into buying another monitor and cordless keyboard, which would be a much more pleasing solution.
My laptop made a correct sitting posture difficult. I was afraid that was going to give me carpal tunnel. Not to mention that I sitting in a foling chair for a good week if not more >.>
So what I did was (well first I got a different chair, much more comfortable) I put the laptop on top of a wooden stand, raised it 2-3 inches. Makes it much easier to look at it correctly and retain posture.
The problem is my arms. I have to raise them pretty high now, and I sort of have to bend my wrists to get at the keys correctly.
After a few hours a kind of ache set into, not my wrist or hand, but my upper arm. I'm thinking at this point it's just muscle fatigue. But I'm wondering if CST can take root in parts of the body besides the hands/wrists. Besides which I'm not actually sure how effective it is in helping to begin with.
Been trying to hunt down exercises against CST and other countermeasures like short breaks every hour or so. Is it a bad sign if trying to do this exercise is difficult to maintain? I could barely go up to 7 repetitions.
Speaking of exercise, a remember seeing another thread on CST where a member talked about an exercise with weights involving the wrists that they did to help fend of CST, anyone know anything about those?
Also looking into buying another monitor and cordless keyboard, which would be a much more pleasing solution.
I got it from poor posture while on my laptop! The pain was enough for me to be out of work for three days. It's been a couple weeks now and the pain is gone and the tightness is gone but my fingertips are numb. Literally numb, it's the weirdest feeling. I would not wish this experience on my worst enemy.
