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by vgel 1958 days ago
Same, I had horrible RSI in my wrists and went to a hand therapist (just a physical therapist who specializes in hands). She made me some thermoformed wrist braces to wear at night and gave me wrist massages which felt awesome, but the main thing she did was prescribe a set of simple wrist exercises which take about 2 minutes to do. I did them every day and my RSI is much better. I still can't do certain things that require 90deg wrist bends that support a lot of weight (mostly pushups), and I'm planning to go back after covid to continue improving, but I can actually type fine for 8 hour+ stretches at a time with 0 pain afterwards.

Most of the ergonomic typing stuff I see online is 100% bunk IMO. People spend tons of money and time on ergonomic keyboards and relearning how to type on different layouts just to buy wrist rests and type with their hands tilted up 15 degrees. Eek.

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What are the exercises?