[csallen]

I agree. Here's my story in case anyone finds it helpful:

I started lifting in college, and quickly transformed from being super skinny to being well-built and much stronger than the average person. But not crazy strong. I can usually bench press around 200lbs, sometimes more, sometimes less.

Regardless, 10 years after I started working out I began to develop hand/wrist pain. It went from nothing to mild to severe in the span of 8 months.

So being strong didn't prevent this from happening. But perhaps it delayed it? I probably average 8-10 hours/day on my computer and have since childhood. I also played StarCraft competitively for a number of years, a game that requires far more quick and repetitive clicking and typing movements than most other computer activities. Many StarCraft pros have had multiple surgeries. It's possible I was lucky to make it to age 29 before I had issues.

I tried everything. Most things didn't work, including taking an extended break from my computer.

What did work was going back to the gym. Lifting heavy weights 2-4x a week. Whenever I'm doing that regularly, the pain goes away. If I slack for a period of months, it begins to come back slowly.