White-collar workers Article submitted by Atrium Legal Services, specialising in workers compensation, including RSI and overuse injuries.  There are thousands of  injuries and illnesses caused by work every day. Typically this is perceived to mainly be in industrial jobs and illness such as asbestosis and injuries from heavy machinery. You maybe surprised to hear that office workers are just as much at ris ...

I originally thought I would wait until my symptoms were completely gone to write about the progress I've made lately, but then thought that's being a little too perfectionist - also I can honestly say I don't fear TMS any more - I'm not concerned that I'm crowing about success now and somehow TMS will rise out of the ashes or anything. If it did I could deal with it. Here's a timeline to put things in pers ...

I had RSI for about a year and a half. By random luck, a stranger (actually, two of them) referred me to The Mindbody Prescription by John Sarno. This was September 1999. I had chronic arm pain, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I treated my arms like they were made of fragile glass, I didn't type at all (I used voice recognition software to do most of my work). I saw myself in the book, but I was afraid -- af ...

My first encounter with RSI was in July 2002. I was working about 9 hours a day on the computer and practicing piano 3-4 hours per night for about six months. One day at work I developed a strong, diffuse ache in my right hand and was unable to type without severe pain. I stopped work for 2 weeks. The injury healed fairly quickly, I remember quite a severe burning sensation in the hand whilst recovering. An ...

My name is James and I am a 40-year-old IT worker in Birmingham, UK. This is my personal story of how RSI took hold of my life, ended my job, but through a lot of pain, effort and learning, I'm now completely free of it. First of all some important things to say: 1. I'm not a doctor or physiotherapist and have no medical training. Don't take my word for anything medical. Get professional medical advice – th ...

In this video Justin describes some of the mechanical processes behind overuse injuries and describes some of the symptoms and talks about his recovery and how he beat RSI [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsGUQ3xw5Zc] Some Nice You Tube Feedback great video... at least some one has beat it! is part 2 available? Heyy man, just thought i'd say thaks for the video. brackishnz 10 months ago My mouse clicking f ...

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxfsdPHcnE4] In this second video, Justin talks extensively about how understanding the psychological aspect of both causation and treatment of RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) is so crucial to recovery and beating RSI ...

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 ...