I've got an RSI -.-

[Moo]

LOL, i did the little test thing, and i've got tendasilovitus (sp?)

anybody else?

[Sparda]

I used to have it heavily, and I still have it a bit now. I have my own strange excersises (which cannot be disguised in public) that make it go away.

[rFayjW98ciLoNQLDZmFRKD]

I think it is more or less a sign you have to go outside more :-)

[RobotChild]

There was an article in EGM awhile back.

There finger stretches they showed work really good. :D

[bobbiac]

/matrix

You have a Residual Self image?

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[Matt {Undead}]

I got rsi most of the time, my arms messed up aswell at the joints because of it, hurts sometimes.

[VaKo]

Its odd, I've used computers since i was born pretty much and I don't have it. In fact my mouse hand seems to have formed its own wrist rest. Maybe using computers from an early age means your body has grown with it, rather than had it forced on it at a later stage, or maybe when I'm 35 my hands will lock solid.

[cooper]

Same here. The closest I got to an RSI was after an all-nighter when I had a screen that contained a bunch of text labels that I had to select with the mouse and then edit the text for. That continuous movement back and forth between my mouse and keyboard really began to hurt my shoulder. Nothing a night's sleep couldn't fix though.

RSI kinda worries me because people around me are dropping like flies to it it seems, yet I, the guy who sits behind a PC quite literally most of his waking hours, has no issues at all. Guess I somehow do things right, or my constitution is just more suited to this kind of work. Maybe it really is something you get used to? Then again, I do go for coffee (or more specifically, a non-descript beverage run) every hour or two. Aside from that shoulder thing I never had any issues, really, but it's nice to know what to look for. My mom's got Carpal Tunnel (like, the REAL Carpal Tunnel) and even had some (botched) surgery done for it. I think that should make me more at risk to this, but so far so good...

[Garda]

The only time i used to get RSI was when i was really small and used to play on the sage. Yes, that's right, the originial sega master system. Damn i feel old.

But that's basically cos i was small and used to press the buttons really hard.

and i used to play for hours at a time

[Arsenic]

... In fact my mouse hand seems to have formed its own wrist rest. ...

Heh, I know exactly what your talking about it. I believe it's built-up calcium, but it's that bump on one of the carpal bones near the outside of your wrist, I didn't notice it until a friend showed me one on his wrist as if it were a battle wound from so much game time.

As far as the exercises, I felt a little discomfort on that thumb test, but nothing serious, and I don't type enough to get CPS (whatev)...