[Jewelry making - Article 00132] - Re: [Orchid] Is lapidary hard on the hands?

[Karen Bahr]

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    Hello Beth and all I have had the surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome
    and when doing computer work find a good chair is a must, same as for
    doing jewellery. Next important thing is to make sure the keyboard
    and mouse is at the proper height for you when you are sitting. Also
    a gel pad to rest my wrist on when using the keypad, and I use an
    ergonomic curved keyboard on my computer though my husbands is
    standard. Your arm from the elbow to the hand should be straight,
    that is the wrist should not bend when you type. The same is true for
    the mouse. I have a mousepad that has a raised portion at the back to
    help to keep my arm straight. 

    Also if you are doing computer work for extended periods of time you
    should make sure to break every 15 to 30 minutes and look at other
    than the computer screen, drop your hands towards the floor and shake
    out the kinks. If time allows go for a brief walk and get a drink of
    water. After 15 minutes staring at the screen we forget to rest our
    eyes and everything else. This causes us to stare too hard at the
    screen and concentrate so hard that we forget that we are also
    tensing our bodies. All these contribute to problems with wrists,
    eyes, shoulder, neck and headaches. We can also have these problems
    at the bench where we should do similar practices. 

    Think about it. We seem to like to punish ourselves :). 

Karen Bahr   "the Rocklady"  (rocklady AT nucleus.com)
K.I.S. Creations
May your gems always sparkle.


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