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Originally Posted by Hans Witteman
Hi shipmates,
There some real improvement in my wrist but it is still too fragile to resume serious work, after holding the mouse for more than an hour the pain come back instantly.
I saw on a website that a severe tendinitis cause by repetitive movement like using a mouse can take up to 8 weeks to fully heal but the worst part mention that often causing the same repetitive task that cause it to come back more often!
So now it is my second week without using it and this morning i read on 3d forum where i go from time to time that some artists use a software that turn a gamepad into a keyboard&mouse solution.
I just download the software and will do some test with it my only concern is the cursor precision and i doubt it could be as precise as a mouse can be.
Best regards Hans
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You need to get a trackball mouse- yes thy are expensive, but 60-80 pounds for a healthy hand is not too much I think
I wholeheartedly recommend Kensington Slimblade- I have similar symptoms to yours and since I bought it my condition is completely under control (I can easily spend 10 hours at a pc with it, but immediatly feel discmofort with ordinary mouse). It is very ergonomic- your hand/wrist never need to move/strain, fingers flick the ball for very fast cursor movement across the screen, while the thumb does the clicking (the LM button is "perpendicular to the thumb joint, RM button is under the pinkie - feels very healthy, and the click is soft and very healthy feeling again). The mouse is very precise too, more so than a traditional mouse for design, drawing, word processor, silent hunter etc .
If you read reviews on it (on amazon) you will most complaints were about its software, the actual ergonomics and hardware of the mouse is as good as there is. (And even software problem was resolved when kensington released an update sometime last year.)
Wishing you the very best of health and "sink them all"!
