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Prevent carpal tunnel and repetitive stress injury with frequent check-ins
Since we work at the computer so much, it’s important to know how to prevent repetitive stress injury or carpal tunnel. I’m not a medical professional and you should consult yours, but here’s my personal experience of healing and prevention.
A year into my online business I began to feel tingling and pain in my wrists. I knew it could get worse if I didn’t do something about it.
So I started doing the following 3 actions.
The symptoms decreased, and were gone after a few months.
Last year, I had stopped doing these actions and the symptoms came back. Once again, renewing the following 3 habits has decreased and eliminated the symptoms.
Frequent Micro-Breaks
If you take one thing away from this article, it’s to take many tiny breaks in any working hour. I call them micro-breaks because they’re about 10 seconds each time.
Many of us keep our hands at the keyboard for dozens of minutes at a time. Whether we are typing, or in between thoughts, our hands stay at the keyboard the whole time. This means we have very little body movement in any working hour… not good for our health.
