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Switching to a much more ergonomic mouse, such as a roller mouse, vertical mouse or joystick, or switching from using a mouse to a stylus pen with graphic tablet may provide relief, but in chronic RSI they may result only in moving the problem to another area. Using a graphic tablet for general pointing, clicking, and dragging (i.e. not drawing) may take some time to get used to as well. Switching to a trackpad or pointing stick, which requires no gripping or tensing of the muscles in the arms may help as well. Inertial mice (which do not require a surface to operate) might offer an alternative where the user's arm is in a less stressful thumbs up position rather than rotated to thumb inward when holding a normal mouse. Also, since they do not need a surface to operate ( air mice function by small, forceless, wrist rotations), the wrist and arm can be supported by the desktop.
I was a longtime sufferer of the condition I dubbed mouse arm, which at one point got so bad that after a few hours, I would have to awkwardly mouse with my left hand for the rest of the day. About five years ago (long before I joined CNET), I discovered a company called Gyration and its line of gyroscopic mice.
Endurance Mouse Arm Rest The innovative Endurance Mouse Arm Rest is ergonomically designed to provide full forearm support and comfort for prolonged mousing applications such as CAD/CAM and desktop publishing. This clever and flexible product installs easily and can be swiveled to the side when full support is not needed.
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