Computer Users: Body on Alert: Prevention and Treatment of Repetitive Strain Injuries

Author: Pasco
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: In the computer age, a popular occupational disease is the severe physical and emotional comprehensive injury caused by computers, known as Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). It encompasses a wide range of injuries—from muscle tissue, lower back pain, nerves to tendons in the hands and arms. When you feel,, or loss of sensation in your hands and arms, making them feel heavy, clumsy, stiff, difficult to make a fist or open your palms, with cold hands, inability to use them freely, lack of control or coordination, you may likely have RSI. Dr. Pasco then proposes a seven-point plan for the prevention and treatment of RSI, to help patients stay away from pain and restore health.