FROM FOX NEWS: Two British airline lounge masseuses sued Virgin Atlantic after suffering repetitive strain injury from massaging overweight executives, British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday. Jayne Evans, 40, and Michelle Hindmarch, 35, developed chronic muscular strain after giving intensive shiatsu massages at the airline's Terminal 3 "Clubhouse" lounge at London's Heathrow Airport, their ...

FROM WEEDY GARDEN.NET Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI) and I are long-time enemies. For me, it manifests as pain from the wrist of my right hand moving up to near the elbow. This started my senior year of college. Near the end of graduation I picked up my first ergonomic keyboard (an Adesso model) that followed me to my first post-college job as an audio engineer. Since those early days I’ve tried a half-doze ...

FROM FREELANCE FOLDER: It’s called RSI or Repetitive Strain Injury. Put simply, RSI is an injury caused by repetitive activity. The most commonly known RSI is carpal tunnel syndrome. But RSI also includes lesser known conditions such as computer vision syndrome, upper limb disorders, musculoskeletal disorders, and cumulative trauma disorders.Of course, freelancers aren’t the only ones at risk for RSI. Artis ...

FROM WASHINGTON BANGLA RADIO India is the call centre mecca and home to many IT workers who spend inordinate times in front of the computer with bad posture and guess what RSI proliferates...read more READ MORE @ http://www.washingtonbanglaradio.com/content/101222910-repetitive-strain-injury-rsi-afflicting-indian-it-workers-bad-posture-blamed ...

The relationship between a carpal tunnel problem and a repetitive strain injury (RSI) is tricky. You may have a carpal tunnel symptom but mistake it for the results of straining your arm. Or you could genuinely just have pulled or overworked a muscle, and mistakenly think you’re developing a carpal tunnel disorder. Many of the symptoms are similar, especially early in the disorder. And to complicate matters ...