The cycle is like this: 1. Pound away at the keyboard indiscriminately for years, no pain 2. Pound away, start to get pain but it goes away after some off time

The cycle is like this: 1. Pound away at the keyboard indiscriminately for years, no pain 2. Pound away, start to get pain but it goes away after some off time (could be as little as a night) 3. Pound away, get pain but it goes away after extended rest time 4. Pound away, the pain never really goes away, it just subsides. It is much like the straw the breaks the camel's back, the frog in a boiling point of water - what you take for granted (the ability to input your thoughts into a machine) might not always be toll-free. If you get pain, stop. Don't be macho or in denial. Go out and do some whole body exercise like swimming (http://totalimmersion.net http://totalimmersion.net rocks) -Someone who has residual pain of 3 on a scale of 10, with spikes going higher. I've become very efficient and have long ago since started diversifying out of programming.