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Sore Fingers?

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by people person-i eat people, Apr 11, 2004.

  1. people person-i eat people Gems: 5/31
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    I started to see if anyone else gets sore fingers after typing too much, because right now my fingers are really hurting because i have been on msn, and this for several hours straight with doing a lot of typing and i was wondering if it just me with my weak, easily breakable fingers or does it happen to other people?? (but i want to continue typing even through the pain, yeh im harcore! joke.)
     
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    Sore fingers? You better back off from your pc or you will get RTS and things like that. If you get pain from typing then stop immediately.
    Typing for hours on end is very bad for you; just sitting at your pc for that long is terrible.
     
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    good plan, but i wanna talk to my friends on msn......... :(
     
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    I can say with complete honesty that this has never happened to me, maybe it is just your easily breakable fingers but odds are good you need a new keyboard.
     
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    No problems here either.
     
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    Takara My goodness! I see turnips everywhere

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    Manybe if you got finger warmers, or gloves or some such it would reduce the chance of sore fingers. If it persist you should invest in some soothing turnip finger lotion. I use it so I can type research essays for a whole day at a time.
     
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    If you keep typing through the pain, you will most likely end up with an repetitive strain injury of some sort. And that can be hell to get rid of.

    The main prevention is to take regular short breaks from the keyboard every half an hour or so. The pain comes from the small muscles in your hands and forearms being tense for long periods.

    Once you get the pain, then rest and ice are the main cures, I'm afraid.
     
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    Dont worry, while you still have fingers it's O.K.

    Now when you'e coming to the critical phase, like chev for instance, when you're typing with the last knuckles on your hands. Then it's time to insert wooden fingers on your remaining fingers ;)
     
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    i played games too much and often result in back and shoulder pain. Recently, i too experience my index finger cannot bend without hurting it. i am falling apart. Should i start a goodbye to all thread before i die?
     
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    Takara My goodness! I see turnips everywhere

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    Yeah that back and shoulder pain can be a real killer. I normally get it after 5-6 hours, or how stressed the games making me. Although I'm sure there are many remedies, (insert miscellaneous turnip cure), I found I just push through it and hope to come out the other side.
     
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    The ultimate solution is to step away from the computer...
     
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    Takara My goodness! I see turnips everywhere

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    Nooo... Can't do that. It'd never forgive me.
     
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    Time to learn to live with it, I think. My fingers hurt all the time, as does most of my palms area. It's a part of me, I guess.
     
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    thanks for all the advice guys and ill think ill just take the idea of taking a break from the computer if they become sore, like my mum always says i should get out more
     
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    Great idea, 8people; keep it at least 2 weeks without any kind of comp-stuff. :D

    (Under disguise, aren't you? :shake: J/K; "AtePeople.")
     
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    Yeah, getting out more would be a fabulous idea.
     
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    I never have sore fingers, but I used to get a pain in my mouse hand, just below the palm, after long sessions of BG/IWD. It felt like my hand weighed 100 pounds.
     
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    Takara My goodness! I see turnips everywhere

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    In tie fighter there is one simulator battle which is constant dog fighting for 2-3 hours. After that my right hand feels like it needs a 2 week holiday.
     
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    I get sore fingers too, so I try every solution I read in the net to avoid Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI).

    I have an original Logitech Marble FX mouse because it does not require small wrist movements like regular mouse. The original ambidextrous Logitech Marble Mouse was even better (allowing you to swap your mouse hand when one got tired) but I lost my Marble Mouse and Logitech have stopped making them :cry: .

    The new Logitech versions are prettier to enhance sales, but have lost the ergonomic excellence of the original versions. (The original marble mouse looked like a rat with a hemorrhoid but it was sooooo comfortable that I regularly mourn its passing into the ugly-reject bin of history.)

    When I make my 'mouse hand' sore playing an RTS game for 12-18 hours straight, the other hand get sore in sympathy.

    I read that on some older keyboards with micoswitches, the clicking action felt as the key strikes the finger as it returns to its original position was linked to a 'white finger' pain in some people's hands.

    Continously striking the keys too hard causes pain. I have had to teach myself to push the keys gently rather than strike them loudly. It isn't nearly as much fun but it works. I have also got an angled 'natural' keyboard with a soft key action. My laptop's membrane keyboard is blissfully soft too but awkward due to its size and layout.

    I recently heard and read that the reason that fingers get sore typing and not during other activities when they are worked just as hard is because typing is a passive activity and the heart rate is too low to keep the active finger muscles supplied with sufficient blood to prevent cramping. Exercising briefly when typing for long periods can't hurt, so I do it. Caution! Flapping like a bird while sitting in front of a computer may cause distress or uncontrollable fits of laughter in those around you.

    RSI is of course no joke if you want to work using computers as a designer etc. Employers can expect you to type for eight hours a day and they treat carpal tunnel syndrome litigation as an expense, not a reason to alter computer use patterns.

    Wrist rests were claimed to make typing more comfortable but instead they increase the chances of getting Carpal Tunnel Syndrome by compressing the Carpal Tunnel.

    There are loads of sites about RSI on the net that tell you to keep your wrist straight etc. Its all good advice to take even if your hands have never hurt, because the damage occurs without being felt, and people only feel sore after the damage has been done.

    After reading some of the web stuff, I now have a comb stuck under my watch strap and extended above my wrist, to see how often I bend my wrist too far back (bad) when using my computer. :heh:
     
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    this might seem a little bit off topic, but right now i have really sore legs and it hurts when i walk, but that is because i just did close to 2 hours of very strenuous soccer training
     
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