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To anyone who has ever had pain or soreness or numbness after a prolonged coding session and it went away after some rest, pain is the first sign. Eventually wh
by wallflower 10y ago
To anyone who has ever had pain or soreness or numbness after a prolonged coding session and it went away after some rest, pain is the first sign. Eventually what happens (and what happened to me) is that you need more recovery time to get back to a baseline normal. And eventually that baseline normal becomes a combination of symptoms: residual numbness, soreness, or pain.
Please don't take your ability to "pound" away at the keyboard for granted. And please don't make jokes about RSI ever. It is not a joke, unless you think a "punch line" of seriously thinking about having to type a lot as a liability for your career.
Swimming is quite possibly the best exercise. See http://totalimmersion.net http://totalimmersion.net for an alternative to the Red Cross endorsed and rather inefficient "pretend you are a human paddleboat" method.
Good luck! Ignoring the problem will not make it go away.
- emodendroket 10y agoI mostly agree with you but I don't think swimming will necessarily help with hand and wrist problems.
- wallflower 10y agoThere is no definite answer. It can and sometimes it can't. Hand and wrist problems are not always just hand and wrist problems. Sometimes they are a symptom of improper alignment and/or stress on the shoulder joints. If that is the case, swimming, a zero-impact (to your joints) activity, through exercising the full-range of motion of your shoulder and related joints can help relieve some of that stress/tension that filters down to the hand and wrist.