Practitioner Tools: A Keyboard to Overcome Repetitive Stress Injury
If you are a practitioner who, like me, spends hours at the keyboard every day and writes a couple of hundred thousand words each year, it is probably only a matter of time before keyboard comfort — and the possibility of repetitive strain injury — becomes an issue that cannot be ignored. See our hands-on review of an ergonomic keyboard that takes the pain out of typing.
We’ve probably all read about the importance of an ergonomically friendly working environment in front of the computer: hardware manufacturers almost always provide prominent advice with their products urging us to maintain healthy posture, position our monitors appropriately, adjust our seat height just so, etc. Some of this might seem like common sense, and some of it might seem not really worth worrying about — but if you spend a great deal of time at the computer, for instance as an online therapist, it can be very serious. If you have not yet experienced computer-related pain, or even symptoms of repetitive stress injury (also called ‘repetitive strain injury’), it is probably only a matter of time before you do. And when you do, it may have a very significant impact on your ability to do work.
Our hands-on review of an ergonomic keyboard from Kinesis reports just how much difference a well-designed keyboard can make. My experience with the Kinesis ergonomic keyboard is overwhelmingly positive: the symptoms of repetitive stress injury which I had previously experienced have almost entirely disappeared. When I think back to how it used to feel to type on an ordinary keyboard, I cannot believe I put up with it so long!
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