In the past I was suffering with some TMS issue.
- I have changed my layout → Less pain but still pain ;
- I have swiched for a TypeMatrix → Less pain but still pain ;
- I have tested a small Grifitti wrist pad → Less pain but still pain ;
- I have a big fat ass Grifitti wrist pad → Almost no pain.
The Wrist pad is under my hands, my elbows (and I often sit on them), my wrists. He provide me a very natural position on the keyboard...
TMS? Are you actually referring to Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)?
I don't know if you've heard about this, but there's clinical evidence now that much work-related wrist and arm pain isn't from physical injury, but is psychosomatic—created by the unconscious mind, in reaction to repetitive, unchallenging work. In other words, your brain gets so bored, it creates an
impression of pain to express its frustration.
It sounds wild, but I'm not making this up.
Here's an interesting story about it in the UK's Daily Mail.
There
is a medical condition called TMS—
Tension Myositis Syndrome. And that is, by its very nature, psychosomatic (created in the mind). So if that's really what you have, it would seem obvious that it's the kind of work you're doing, and not typing itself, that's causing the problem.
