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A lot of computer users suffer with repetitive strain injury due to long periods at their desks typing away. Making the same movement repeatedly causes repetitive strain injury, which damages soft tissue in the area in use.
 
Computer users up and down the land have been struck with repetitive strain injury due to high speed typing […]

Repetitive strain injury accounts for a major cost in the employment market, many people have taken time off due to sickness because the effects of repetitive strain injury have made work difficult to carry out.
 
Repetitive strain injury not only affects the work place, it also affects the little things we do in everyday life, and […]

Repetitive strain injury is fast becoming an epidemic; many people around the globe are wandering around with aching shoulders, tense hands and cramp in the wrist, but what is making this epidemic happen.
 
What is repetitive strain injury?
 
Repetitive strain injury is a condition caused by carrying out the same movement time and again. By carrying out […]

Carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow are all common conditions. You’ve probably heard of all of these types of repetitive stress injuries and likely others as well. They’re common in a modern world where we tend to do the same things repeatedly. But if we’re so vulnerable to repetitive stress injuries because of our […]

Parents often recognize the words “repetitive stress injury”.  They can relate those terms to carpal tunnel syndrome and other “adult” conditions people get from work and sports.  However, parents rarely realize their children can be at just as much risk for repetitive stress injuries as the average adult. 
 
There are several things that can create […]

You’ve probably heard of RSI, better known as repetitive stress injury, and know how painful it can be to someone who has it. You don’t want to get this condition yourself, so it can’t be emphasized enough how important it is to prevent this disorder. There are a few simple changes that you can implement in your […]

Many employees develop repetitive stress injuries at work.  In fact, full time employees are more likely to get a repetitive stress injury than anyone else in the world.  The risks are in almost every workplace across the globe.  However, employers are still not taking repetitive stress injuries and their risks seriously.  If you are an […]

When you know that someone in your family is sick, what do you do? If you are like many then you don’t drink after them. You spray everything with Lysol and make sure to wash your hands. You make sure they are covering their mouths when coughing and other things. You put them in one […]

Repetitive stress injuries (RSI) are more common in full time workers than anyone else.  In fact, they were once only seen as work related conditions.  However, today doctors know there are also things people do at home to cause these stress related injuries.  Still, there are jobs that put people at a higher risk of […]

If you have a RSI or repetitive stress injury, then there are some exercises that you can do at your desk during rest periods that will help your condition. They can also help prevent it if you don’t have it yet. You don’t have to do them all and it doesn’t matter what order you perform them […]