At some point in your life as an avid Netizen who also actively play sports like tennis and golf, you will experience wrist pain. It may start out as nothing more than a twinge of discomfort that immediately goes away but then degenerates into an acute pain and/or numbness that will wake you up in the middle of the night.
Consulting your doctor can help. Finding the proper response and treatment for wrist pain can vary depending on what sort of injury you have; these can go from RICE protocols to surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome. However, there's a lot you can do before you get to the point of a doctor's consult, by using a simple pillow for your wrist.
What It Is
A wrist pillow is exactly what it sounds like; it's some form of soft pillow that you can put under your wrist to cushion the pressure on the joint, tendon sheathes and nerve sheathes. Most can be bought in computer stores, and there are ones that sit in front of your keyboard or are integrated into mouse pads. Many of these can be had in choices of colors, though they're usually neutral for blending into offices - they're gray, blue and black. If you buy them online, they can be customized with company logos.
Other ways to get this kind of wrist support can be had around the house; rolling up a towel and putting it under your wrists at the keyboard can work, or you can find online videos that will walk you through the steps of a more elaborate craft project; stuffing them can be done with old socks, discarded bits of yarn or other soft pliant materials. Doing it yourself also lets you make it as colorful as you like.
What It Can Do for You
As inexpensive, easy to purchase/easy to make, and innocuous as a wrist support in the form of a small pillow is, you will enjoy many benefits from it. For one thing, your wrist will be protected from the repetitive stress injury brought by hours of pecking and clicking away on your computer. Since your wrist rests on soft gel, or other soft materials like cotton, it is angled in such a way as to minimize stress. In fact, a properly-made wrist pillow can relieve tension in this most important of body parts.
Other benefits of wrist pillows is that the commercial varieties usually have nonslip basis, which keep the keyboard or mouse pad from sliding around too much. This can also boost typing speed and accuracy with the mouse, since it's not zipping all over the screen.
Above and beyond the benefits to your typing and mousing, wrist pillows will also help in warding off medical conditions like carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis. They can also help reduce the pain from arthritis, tendonitis and sprains. If you make your living typing at a keyboard, pain is a direct cost to you, in lost productivity and other factors, and is definitely something to be avoided.
Just to give an idea of how much you can save by using a cheap wrist pillow, the time and money for physical therapy typically runs a few thousand dollars and several weeks to months as you adjust your typing posture to correct for carpal tunnel syndrome. - 30453
Consulting your doctor can help. Finding the proper response and treatment for wrist pain can vary depending on what sort of injury you have; these can go from RICE protocols to surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome. However, there's a lot you can do before you get to the point of a doctor's consult, by using a simple pillow for your wrist.
What It Is
A wrist pillow is exactly what it sounds like; it's some form of soft pillow that you can put under your wrist to cushion the pressure on the joint, tendon sheathes and nerve sheathes. Most can be bought in computer stores, and there are ones that sit in front of your keyboard or are integrated into mouse pads. Many of these can be had in choices of colors, though they're usually neutral for blending into offices - they're gray, blue and black. If you buy them online, they can be customized with company logos.
Other ways to get this kind of wrist support can be had around the house; rolling up a towel and putting it under your wrists at the keyboard can work, or you can find online videos that will walk you through the steps of a more elaborate craft project; stuffing them can be done with old socks, discarded bits of yarn or other soft pliant materials. Doing it yourself also lets you make it as colorful as you like.
What It Can Do for You
As inexpensive, easy to purchase/easy to make, and innocuous as a wrist support in the form of a small pillow is, you will enjoy many benefits from it. For one thing, your wrist will be protected from the repetitive stress injury brought by hours of pecking and clicking away on your computer. Since your wrist rests on soft gel, or other soft materials like cotton, it is angled in such a way as to minimize stress. In fact, a properly-made wrist pillow can relieve tension in this most important of body parts.
Other benefits of wrist pillows is that the commercial varieties usually have nonslip basis, which keep the keyboard or mouse pad from sliding around too much. This can also boost typing speed and accuracy with the mouse, since it's not zipping all over the screen.
Above and beyond the benefits to your typing and mousing, wrist pillows will also help in warding off medical conditions like carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis. They can also help reduce the pain from arthritis, tendonitis and sprains. If you make your living typing at a keyboard, pain is a direct cost to you, in lost productivity and other factors, and is definitely something to be avoided.
Just to give an idea of how much you can save by using a cheap wrist pillow, the time and money for physical therapy typically runs a few thousand dollars and several weeks to months as you adjust your typing posture to correct for carpal tunnel syndrome. - 30453
About the Author:
Tom Nicholson has spent years helping carpal tunnel sufferers. You can follow this link to find out more regarding having asore wrist.
