Living in Pain
Do you go to work in pain? Hand pain? Back Pain? Shoulder Pain? Any kind of pain.
Whatever kind of pain you have it is miserable to sit or stand for hours in this pain. But what choice do you have? You have to make a living. You have to have a roof over your head, food, and utilities.
For me it was hand pain. I would sit at a computer and work for eight hours a day. I would cry on the way home. Driving was even painful. What do you do?
Mouse clicking was the worst. My hand would become weak, and go numb.
I have heard from more people lately about how painful it is for them to click a mouse. Now most people would say that is ridiculous. How can a simple mouse cause pain?
Well, I am going to tell you it can and does. With the use of various kinds of software mouse clicking is the only way to achieve your end result. Now with scanners in the work place mouse clicking is taking off in leaps and bounds.
Hand pain from clicking a mouse is going to escalate out of control if it hasn’t already.
Switch Hands
I am right-handed and I have my mouse on my left side. I have trained my hand and my brain. It took a couple of weeks but now I am a left-handed mouse clicker.
Three Fingers
Another way to click a mouse is by putting your three middle fingers together and clicking. That way there is less pressure on the tendon.
Palm of Hand
Also, try draping the palm of your hand on top of the mouse and clicking with the side of your hand.
All these ideas I have tried and they all came from hand therapists I have used in the past.
Maybe, you have some other ideas or someday there will be a new method to achieve a mouse click without clicking a mouse. I do hope so.
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