I may be out of line here, but I fail to see what on earth this has to do
with R and why this thread should be continued here.

I appreciate the fact that there is no maliciousness involved, but the
danger of such off topic discussions (imho, of course) is that it dilutes
the purpose and value of R-help and wastes time and energy. So may I plea
to keep discussions here on topic and move this to private or one of the
innumerable ergonomics sites on the web.

Thank you.

-- Bert

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Keith Jewell <k.jewell@campden.co.uk> wrote:

> When I suffered from wrist pain I found changing from a standard mouse to
> a cordless trackball gave rapid and complete relief.
>
> Your mileage may vary.
>
> Keith J
>
>  I think I've avoided tendonitis by carefully stretching the affected
>> area when I begin to feel discomfort and, as John suggests, "Carefully
>> watch posture and arm/hand actions to reduce strain".
>>
>> Clint Bowman INTERNET: clint@ecy.wa.gov
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>> On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, John Kane wrote:
>>
>>  I've come close a couple of times. Solutions: don't use computer-not
>>> always practical. Carefully watch posture and arm/hand actions to
>>> reduce strain.
>>>
>>> If do a lot of keyboarding not just R type look into using a Dvoark
>>> keyboard.
>>>
>>> Something I have not done but which is likely to help is consult your
>>> institutions health and safety people about solutions such as
>>> ergonomic keyboards etc.
>>>
>>> John Kane
>>> Kingston ON Canada
>>>
>>>
>>>  -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: research@namibia.pharmaccess.**org<research@namibia.pharmaccess.org>
>>>> Sent: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 12:55:36 +0000
>>>> To: r-help@r-project.org
>>>> Subject: [R] Tendonitis and R users
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello
>>>> This request asks something beyond the technicalities of the R language,
>>>> I would like to ask you wonderful people if you have ever suffered as
>>>> programmers ( or de facto programmers like myself though I am a
>>>> 'research
>>>> assistant') from tendonitis and how you coped with it, i have golfer's
>>>> elbow on both sides. Any resources?
>>>>
>>>> Pancho Mulongeni
>>>> Namibia
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