There is definitely something to the lower body temperature thing. I didn't start having wrist problems until a few years ago, during the summer. I sat directly under an air vent, and my hands were always cold. A friend of mine pointed me to the MouseMitt website, I purchased some of their Keyboarders , and the pain/ numbness decreased significantly.
I don't sit under the AC any more, but I do still use the Keyboarders when my wrists are being particulary bothersome. I find they also come in handy when using a laptop because they are much more portable than a standard wrist rest.
I am not sure if this is what you were looking for, but a quick search on "Alexander Technique" brings up this link , which appears to be a rather helpful list of links to information about the Alexander Technique.
Also, I really like MouseMitt Keyboarders. I don't use them all the time, but when my wrists start to ache they help alleviate the pain, plus they are very portable.
With this in mind, read this and ponder for a bit:
When my parents had their third child, everything seemed perfectly normal (whatever that might be) for the first 6 months. Then they started to notice that she did not respond very well to outside stimuli, and she seemed to be developing quite slowly compared to the first two children. So, as any concerned parents might do, they took her to the doctor. He then gave them the news - their baby was bon with an inherited birth defect known as Tay Sachs. For those of you that do not know about Tay Sachs and do not have the time to read over the website, I can tell you this - there is no cure, and an early death is inevitable. Parents of a child with Tay-Sachs will have the opportunity to watch their child die as their central nervous system slowly fails. It usually begins with the loss of eysight and hearing, and the disease progresses from there.
When my sister was two, my parents had to decide between intubating her so that she could eat (which would prolong her life by a year or two, but she would continue to suffer) or not intubating (in which case they could watch her starve to death since she could no longer swallow). Every hour or so, someone had to suction out her mouth so that she would not choke on her own saliva.
How's that for a tough decision? Imagine how much easier it would have been on my sister if my parents would have had the choice to let her die quickly, keeping in mind that there is no cure.
So I ask you to think about this - if you were unable to move on your own or communicate in any way to the people around you (in fact, quite often not knowing that there were people around you at all), and if you knew that you were doomed to a very painful existance for the short time that you were alive, do you think perhaps you might lie there hoping that someone would see fit to shorten your life, or would you choose to live as long as you possibly could?
For information about SAFE (HR 850), as well as information about contacting members of Congress, check out the Center for Democracy & Technology. If you put in your zip code, it will return information about your Rep. and how to contact him/ her. Hope this helps!
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There is definitely something to the lower body temperature thing. I didn't start having wrist problems until a few years ago, during the summer. I sat directly under an air vent, and my hands were always cold. A friend of mine pointed me to the MouseMitt website, I purchased some of their Keyboarders , and the pain/ numbness decreased significantly.
I don't sit under the AC any more, but I do still use the Keyboarders when my wrists are being particulary bothersome. I find they also come in handy when using a laptop because they are much more portable than a standard wrist rest.
I am not sure if this is what you were looking for, but a quick search on "Alexander Technique" brings up this link , which appears to be a rather helpful list of links to information about the Alexander Technique.
The Interfaces Chair and Keyboard System is a great way to get the chair/ smaller keyboard combo, but it takes some getting used to.
Also, I really like MouseMitt Keyboarders. I don't use them all the time, but when my wrists start to ache they help alleviate the pain, plus they are very portable.
Hope this helps.
Sometimes there just aren't any easy choices
With this in mind, read this and ponder for a bit:
When my parents had their third child, everything seemed perfectly normal (whatever that might be) for the first 6 months. Then they started to notice that she did not respond very well to outside stimuli, and she seemed to be developing quite slowly compared to the first two children. So, as any concerned parents might do, they took her to the doctor. He then gave them the news - their baby was bon with an inherited birth defect known as Tay Sachs. For those of you that do not know about Tay Sachs and do not have the time to read over the website, I can tell you this - there is no cure, and an early death is inevitable. Parents of a child with Tay-Sachs will have the opportunity to watch their child die as their central nervous system slowly fails. It usually begins with the loss of eysight and hearing, and the disease progresses from there.
When my sister was two, my parents had to decide between intubating her so that she could eat (which would prolong her life by a year or two, but she would continue to suffer) or not intubating (in which case they could watch her starve to death since she could no longer swallow). Every hour or so, someone had to suction out her mouth so that she would not choke on her own saliva.
How's that for a tough decision? Imagine how much easier it would have been on my sister if my parents would have had the choice to let her die quickly, keeping in mind that there is no cure.
So I ask you to think about this - if you were unable to move on your own or communicate in any way to the people around you (in fact, quite often not knowing that there were people around you at all), and if you knew that you were doomed to a very painful existance for the short time that you were alive, do you think perhaps you might lie there hoping that someone would see fit to shorten your life, or would you choose to live as long as you possibly could?
I know what I would want...
For information about SAFE (HR 850), as well as information about contacting members of Congress, check out the
Center for Democracy & Technology. If you put in your zip code, it will return information about your Rep. and how
to contact him/ her. Hope this helps!