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For me, it’s been the mouse not the keyboard. As long as I keep my wrists straight (usually with wrist pad or suitably adjusted armrests) things have been fine

For me, it’s been the mouse not the keyboard. As long as I keep my wrists straight (usually with wrist pad or suitably adjusted armrests) things have been fine. But I guess I hold the mouse too tightly and have dodgy finger tendons to show for it. Learning to mouse left handed has helped twice: once with tennis elbow years back and then permanently in the 00’s. Way less mileage on the left hand. I’ve tried trackballs but it felt too odd and touchpads are not useful in our work (way too much chording). Therefore, make sure you’re not getting messed up mousing.

bradknowles 5y ago
In the 90s, I developed carpal tunnel syndrome (diagnosed), and they gave me hard wrist splints to address the problem. After a lot of pain and testing, I found out my problem was with the mouse, so I switched to trackballs and then later to trackpads. Problem solved. Recently, I started developing problems with my thumbs that seem to be similar to De Quervain syndrome (not officially diagnosed, at least not yet). I have found that the soft and hard braces for DQS that are available at Walgreens help with this problem, but I suspect that the cause is actually trackpads. I have yet to figure out what kind of actual solution for the real cause might be.