Funny, I trashed my thumbs playing "Marble Madness" and "Missile Command" in high school. Never could use a trackball for extended periods after that.
B When I'm using a stylus, I end up using the stylus in my left and mouse in my right… things get going pretty fast.
Years ago, I loved my turbo mouse trackball, but it trashed my thumb… Now I really like using a magic trackpad. no mouse gripping at all, and I use both hands. I sometimes use a mouse in one hand and trackpad with the other (or both).
Keep switching things up, and if I remember to take breaks, things are good.
- chris
-- chris bator interactive and motion design
I do something similar, use my mouse with left hand and pen with right, simultaneously when drawing.
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On 9 Oct 2012, at 15:19, Todd Kopriva wrote:
Here's what works for me:
I do something very similar to what Shelby recommends---switching positions, chairs, and input devices many times throughout the day. I stand or use my laptop while in a light stretching position on the floor while working in my home office, where I deliberately don't have a chair. In my Adobe office, I alternate between a standard chair and an exercise ball. But here's the change that made the most difference for my wrist, arm, and shoulder:
I am a left-handed mouser at work and a right-handed mouser at home. This took only a few weeks to transition into doing, and it made it so that I haven't had a moment of RSI-related pain in 10 years... after debilitating pain for the year or so right before. Spreading the stress/strain across both sides of my body means that neither side does too much in too short a time. I kept the right side for home because I'm originally a righty and didn't want this work adaptation to detract from my creative work at home.
Also, no matter how busy I am, I force myself to take a short walk after every hour of stationary work. (Phone meetings aren't stationary, as I'm usually doing some very light exercise on the other end of the phone.)
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