| I can't give you any advice but I can tell you how my setup changed my wrist and elbow pain This is the current setup I have; (https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-e7NziCicKmw/UipPp8ZC4qI/A...) Freestyle2 keyboard with ascent setup. Basically a vertical keyboard, with a distance of 36cm between the two splits (about my width) regular mouse. (always thought a vertical mouse would be good, but I don't want to shell out $100 for that) distance between my hand: 6cm, at most. This seems to work for me and has taken lot of pain away from my wrists and elbows I switch between standing desk and sitting on a chair. My wrists are never twisted and that seems to have had the most effect. My typing speed never took a hit (probably because I touch type) Also the biggest thing for me is I use a lot less mouse in anycase because I do most of the stuff with keyboard shortcuts. Pentadactyl for firefox is a lot more useful because I can pretty much avoid using the mouse even when I'm browsing the web. Emacs is a little problematic but I remapped the ctrl key to caps lock and that took out half the issues So, even when I use the mouse (very rarely) I don't have to reach out a big distance, it's at most 6cms away. Also get a mechanical keyboard, or any keyboard which will give you tactile feedback of keys being registered. Also which require lot less force to actuate the keys (cherry mx brown, blue, clear keys or some topre switches) I also got a kbt pure keyboard (a 60% keyboard), so even with that the travel between the jkl; row and mouse is short. |
