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Suggestions for an Ergonomic Mouse?

Posted by Cliff on from the keyboards-aren't-the-only-wrist-enemies-out-there dept.

pawul13 asks: "I've seen lots of articles and suggestions on ergonomic keyboards (and I have the excellent kinesis version, which helps tremendously), but what about mice? I'm currently experiencing a lot of pain, but only in my 'mouse' wrist. I have a semi-ergo Logitech, but it's not doing it. Does anyone have suggestions for the best ergo mouse (Trackball, optical, whatever, it doesn't matter)?" There was a similar question from January, but it may have been too limited.

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  1. Well... by hookedup · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One of the ladies here at work complained about her wrist being sore from being at a PC for 8 hours a day. We gave her a trackball, and I have not seen her extension # show up on my phone since.

    Give it a shot.

  2. Daily Planet by dJCL · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually, there was a short segment on Daily Planet the other day that mentioned mouse hand pains. They stated that researchers had determined that just moving your mouse to the other side of the keyboard and using your other hand was enough to make a lot of the pains go away and never come back!

    Basic idea: you reach past your number keys to get to the mouse, so moving to the other side reduces hand travel to get there. And anyone can adapt to the mouse on the other side, even without changing buttons... Try it, and you may not have to spend money to solve your problems.

    Anyway...

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  3. Is a mouse really needed? by menscher · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Just try to use the keyboard more. Don't copy/paste with a mouse, use y and p (in vi, of course).

    Also, I agree with another poster that a large part of the problem is because of that silly numeric keypad wasting 6" of space past the right side of my keyboard. Might be worth finding a keyboard without that (course, they're really useful when typing numbers, but that's another matter).

    I also suspect that a lot of extra effort is put into pressing , since it's so far away. I've actually adapted into pressing ^H by habit. But that doesn't always work: brings up browser history, etc. Also, if you accidentally type rm -rf / and mean to hit ^H but miss and hit ^J....

  4. ergo is bad for your wrist by Basje · · Score: 4, Interesting

    an ergonomic mouse forces your hand to always have the exact same position. Hence, the movements will always be the same and repetitive.

    You'd be best off with the old amiga mouses or something: square. You'd end up shifting your hand from time to time since it's uncomfortable, in the long run it's more comforatble.

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