Thanks for the pointers.
Yeah, I sometimes wake up with a hand completely asleep.
I did try a kind of rigid protection "thingie" to prevent bending of the wrist, e.g. during sleep. However, my experience that it actually worsened the symptoms. Maybe I'll try some elbow bending prevention stuff also.
Having an "insider" is probably a good thing in these matters.:)
I've been a hard-core programmer for about 15 years and have had no problems (with my wrists/hands, that is).
Until a couple of years ago.
What happened then is that I had picked up playing drums (again) a few months earlier, and on one occurrance (it never happened again, for obvious reasons), I practiced an obscene amount of single strokes (alternating left-right hand) at high speed and at length. Completely insane, I know. Now. A day or two after this, my problems started...
My problems now is quite annoying numbness in pinky and ring fingers and along that "edge" of the hand, both left and right, and the whole length of the ulnar nerve from upper arm to hand is very sensitive. I can trigger the funny bone feeling by simply stroking the inside of my upper arm (for those that do not know, the "funny bone" is actually the ulnar nerve http://www.med.mun.ca/anatomyts/nerve/ulnar1.gif). I can no longer play the drums. It gets significantly worse after about 5-10 minutes and I'm forced to stop. My typing has suffered as well. I can't type as fast as I could before and my pinky fingers feel slow and weak(er). My problems aren't really about pain, but mostly the numbness. It can ache somewhat for short periods if I type for longer periods (which is now only a few hours).
The diagnoses I've gotten basically boils down to either back problem or simply "pressure on ulnar nerve" (at the wrist), and none of the people and different kinds of doctors I've talked to, seem to have idea what to do about it. Seeing that the problems started after my little "session" and it not something that has gradually increased over time, I personally doubt that the "classic" reasons for RSI apply in my case. Like, bad posture, bad keyboard etc. Nor do I think the problem is related to back problems (I've never had any significant problems with my back either).
I might as well throw a question out there while I'm at it,any suggestions or similar experiences? I read the page on JWZ, some good points there.
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Thanks for the pointers. Yeah, I sometimes wake up with a hand completely asleep. I did try a kind of rigid protection "thingie" to prevent bending of the wrist, e.g. during sleep. However, my experience that it actually worsened the symptoms. Maybe I'll try some elbow bending prevention stuff also. Having an "insider" is probably a good thing in these matters. :)
I've been a hard-core programmer for about 15 years and have had no problems (with my wrists/hands, that is). Until a couple of years ago. What happened then is that I had picked up playing drums (again) a few months earlier, and on one occurrance (it never happened again, for obvious reasons), I practiced an obscene amount of single strokes (alternating left-right hand) at high speed and at length. Completely insane, I know. Now. A day or two after this, my problems started... My problems now is quite annoying numbness in pinky and ring fingers and along that "edge" of the hand, both left and right, and the whole length of the ulnar nerve from upper arm to hand is very sensitive. I can trigger the funny bone feeling by simply stroking the inside of my upper arm (for those that do not know, the "funny bone" is actually the ulnar nerve http://www.med.mun.ca/anatomyts/nerve/ulnar1.gif). I can no longer play the drums. It gets significantly worse after about 5-10 minutes and I'm forced to stop. My typing has suffered as well. I can't type as fast as I could before and my pinky fingers feel slow and weak(er). My problems aren't really about pain, but mostly the numbness. It can ache somewhat for short periods if I type for longer periods (which is now only a few hours).
The diagnoses I've gotten basically boils down to either back problem or simply "pressure on ulnar nerve" (at the wrist), and none of the people and different kinds of doctors I've talked to, seem to have idea what to do about it. Seeing that the problems started after my little "session" and it not something that has gradually increased over time, I personally doubt that the "classic" reasons for RSI apply in my case. Like, bad posture, bad keyboard etc. Nor do I think the problem is related to back problems (I've never had any significant problems with my back either).
I might as well throw a question out there while I'm at it,any suggestions or similar experiences? I read the page on JWZ, some good points there.