Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/15

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Subject: [Leica] Wrist pain ergonomics
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Fri Aug 15 11:16:40 2008

----- Original Message -----
> From: Jeff Moore <jbm@jbm.org>

> My girlfriend (who earns her living doing on-air graphics for live TV
> news every damn' weekday, and whose work requires much mousing) started
>having this problem a year or two ago.

> Her solution:  she moved her computer's mouse to the left side of te
> keyboard, and just cold-turkey forced herself to be a mousin' leftie.
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I've never liked using a computer mouse,  and I worried about repetitive 
stress,
so to divide the work, I use a symmetrical trackball centered in front of my 
keyboard -
my right hand moves the ball, and my left clicks the button.

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
UPAA POY 1978
University Information Technology Services
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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