I blew out my left arm for 1.5 years, my solution was 1. strap it to my chest for about a year 2. learn right-hand dvorak 3. do my own physical therapy 4. switch to a kinesis keyboard
The largest benefit to me came from coding on a futon or couch where I could change my wrist/arm position every twenty minutes. It turned out my joint wear came from coding in exactly the same position for 16 hours a day.
More recently I’ve switched to ergodox keyboards. Switching to a split keyboard means my wide shoulders don’t cause pronation anymore.
@neeels wrote down how his RSI issues were eventually cured: http://hofmeyr.de/wrist%20pain%20%28RSI%29/ (follow links at the bottom after disclaimer)
I blew out my left arm for 1.5 years, my solution was 1. strap it to my chest for about a year 2. learn right-hand dvorak 3. do my own physical therapy 4. switch to a kinesis keyboard
The largest benefit to me came from coding on a futon or couch where I could change my wrist/arm position every twenty minutes. It turned out my joint wear came from coding in exactly the same position for 16 hours a day.
More recently I’ve switched to ergodox keyboards. Switching to a split keyboard means my wide shoulders don’t cause pronation anymore.
I’m afraid that doing same thing for basically whole day is not healthy for any value of thing.
I’m interested in the pressure sleeves. The ones I’m finding seem to all be marked as “cooling”, but the article says they warm him up.
Kinesis Advantage represent! I have hurt my wrist, so the pain wasn’t exactly chronic, but came back easily.
Kinesis and a solid CST trackball changed my life for the better!
On laptops, I use knuckles for modifier keys. On other keyboards, I just use my palm for the control key. Save caps lock for the escape key.
I like having a tap on caps mapped to esc, and a press mapped to ctrl.
Actual ctrl key I map to ctrl+opt+cmd and press with the palm for custom combos.
That sounds interesting, how did you acomplished that?