Pagafyr Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 I find that using the index finger for the left mouse button, middle finger over the wheel, and the third finger over the right mouse button gives me a more comfortable grip with the MX Master 35. The pinky finger and thumb get a good grip on it too with practice. It took me awhile to get used to that arrangement. It made my gaming experiences less stressful on the middle finger of my hand after I did. Is it true the middle fingers are the ones that cause corpal tunnel strain, because the middle finger is the one with the muscles when getting the most use cause that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7531Leonidas Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Re - Carpal Tunnel - my kb hand is the one that exhibits the symptoms from time to time, mostly from my thumb on the space bar, so I am not sure about your last statement being true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagafyr Posted January 5 Author Share Posted January 5 Is using the individual fingers, or our thumb, more often what causes them to get the carpol tunnel problem? Are they strained so we have to give the hand a rest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7531Leonidas Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 I believe that any limb/joint is susceptible to repetitive stress injury (RSI), carpal tunnel is prevalent mainly because there is so much going on in that tiny passage for those nerves. Yes, I do also believe that rest can help prevent problems before they occur, but that once there is a problem, it is hard to rest enough. But I AM NOT A DOCTOR/SURGEON. Just my observations of myself/family/friends/acquaintances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagafyr Posted January 5 Author Share Posted January 5 Soak in water a bit warmer, like a hot bath. Too warm is called scalding hot, and too warm in language about muscles is called PAIN! I looked for ways to prevent the strain that can cause sore muscles. Now that you brought my attention to the nerves responsible to support our hands muscles I figure a good soak of the hand, wrist, and forearm in hot water for fifteen minutes may prevent the problem. I think I will try some stretch stuff too. Just tried this on I found. It says to hold our arms stretched out in front of us; then we press the hands together in front of us like some people do to pray and then, move them in toward your chest. Your wrists will bend as you do while holding your hands together. When you begin to feel tension stop or you may feel a slight bit of pain. Hold where it is tense but doesn't hurt and little by little it limbers up so you can draw you hands in closer to your chest. Once you can bring them to your chest, hold. Breath! I had to stop holding my breath. I discovered I could bring them in closer and closer after a minute each time. I got them pressed against my chest. Then I tried pushing one with the other gently. I was able to relieve some more tension easing up to the tension on each wrist as I bent them back just a bit. I found that if I feel pain as I press I release the pressure just a bit, hold it there, and wait a moment. 60 seconds at least. I remembered to only stretch it until I feel it is tight and hold at a point where it is just tension. I gently pushed until I got to the stretch point just before the pain occured and hold that until it gets warm. It took about a minute and I discovered I could bend my wrists a little further. The next instruction was to move the hands inward toward the inner forearm until the muscles on the back of the wrists reach their tension there. Doing both bendings ways gives a good our wrists a good stretch then. Soak in water a bit warmer than lukewarm but not as hot as a hot bath. I am going to do the stretch moves again after the day of tapping the keys and much mouse button control and work. Thx for the update about our nerves! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7531Leonidas Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Many athletes prefer an ice water/warm water bath alternation. Not sure which is first, but the ice water reduces inflammation, while the warm bath increases circulation. Pitchers in US baseball, and quarterbacks in US football I think, generally ice pack/ice bath first, then warm. Again, I am not sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zixi Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 It's usually a blend of things. I'm hopeless at obeying those kind of recommendations. I had a couple of really bad falls a few years ago and I leapt to my feet again. My husband says you're supposed to lie there and take stock... (he did karate and stuff) I take stock best by attempting to run about a bit... I can't imagine having the patience to do hot/cold and then cold/hot... RSI - best not get it. I'm serious. I've seen people treated for it with surgery and although it was better than prior to surgery it was never what it used to be before the RSI... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7531Leonidas Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 In a very old experience, the doctor directed me to use ice packs for the first 48 hours, then alternating ice pack/warm soak sessions. I don't believe any injury or surgery ever returns to what it 'used to be' - pretty hard to do with scar tissue, circulation changes and whatnot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zixi Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 (edited) And the older you are, the less likely it is to heal at all well... But I still prefer to a) live in hope that it will fix itself - we are self-repairing mechanisms after all and b) hope aliens arrive with the technology to fix it... I'd really like either The Doctor from Voyager or Phlox from Enterprise... edit - Who added 'get a grip' as a tag? Really made me laugh - thank you! Edited January 6 by zixi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagafyr Posted January 6 Author Share Posted January 6 The hand/wrist stretching I found is to prevent stress injuries because it helps by limbering our muscles so we are flexible when we get ready to work. Dust all over it! Cough, cough! It's a very old book I have that I dug out off my book shelves. It is about preventing injuries. New task. Dust off all the books to prevent lungs getting clogged from breathing old dust I am not sure where it came from. LOL The book is for hard labor for outdoor work. It has a whole section on hand stretches. I only bothered to look in because I realized it covers more then just the manual labor type stretches for our larger body parts. Wow! I just realized I could scan my old books. Then save them so I can read them on my monitor. Have a good new year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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