[ntalbott]

I started to get wrist pain when I was about twenty, and did some reading on it. One thing I saw recommended at the time was to make sure never to sleep with the wrist bent in (i.e. a "limp wrist" position), but always straight or bent back (as if signaling someone to stop). Over a period of a few weeks I trained myself to always sleep with my wrist bent back by adjusting it to that position whenever I was aware at night, and have slept that way since. I'm now in my mid-thirties, and have had no further trouble with wrist pain.

I certainly do other things to keep my wrists healthy, such as trying to maintain good posture while typing, sitting in a good seat, etc., so I can't attribute sleeping position with all of my continued good health. But I certainly won't go back to sleeping with my wrist bent in; it's an easy thing to maintain and it seems to help a lot.