9/24/2023 0 Comments Thumb pain typingShe prescribed a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (high doses of ibuprofen will do the trick) and occupational therapy. I went to see a doctor, and she suggested it was some sort of “-itis”, a fancy Latin word saying I was in pain and she wasn’t quite sure why. The pain came and went, and eventually it came and stayed. I reconfigured my desk setup to be more ergonomic (the days I do this via a standing desk).Īnd I also started taking typing breaks: half a minute every few minutes, 10 minutes once an hours. They’ve definitely solved one particular kind of pain I used to have due to overstretching. I own multiple Kinesis keyboards and would be very sad without them. It’s expensive, built like a tank and amazingly well designed: because Ctrl, Alt, Space, Enter are on the thumb are you don’t end up stretching your hands as much.Īs an Emacs user this is important I basically can’t use regular keyboards for anything more than a few minutes these days. When I first got wrist pain bad enough that I couldn’t type I started by getting a better keyboard, the Kinesis Advantage. Failed solution #1: better hardware, better ergonomics, more breaks It’s quite possible the same solution would have worked all those years ago, too: instead of unhappily working as a product manager for a few years I could have been programming.īut before I tell you what I figured out, here’s what I tried first. I came up with a way to test my theory, tried it out… and the pain went away. Was my career as a programmer going to take another hit?Īnd then, while biking to work one day, I realized what was going on. The last two times this happened I’d had to take months and then years off from programming before the pain went away. So when my wrist and arm pain returned soon after starting a new job I was starting to get a little scared. Yes, there’s voice recognition, but it’s just not the same. If it hurts to type you’ll have a much harder time working as a programmer.
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