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This semester, thanks to the purchase of a new keyboard equipped with a wrist rest and specially designed to allow for more natural wrist movements, Bhan's pain hardly ever recurs. And Bhan, who is co-president of Digitas, a students group focusing on emerging technologies spends about five hours per day on his computer, between logging onto the student network and working on papers...
...Bhan's symptoms were never diagnosed by aphysician. Davis and Roach were both diagnosedwith tendonitis. The three share symptoms ofdisorders which physicians say are on the rise incomputer users, including students, and others whoperform repetitive tasks involving the wrists andhands...
...such information may fail to beincorporated into the planning of many workenvironments. For example, the desks with whichHarvard furnishes dormitory rooms are designed forwriting, not typing. Typing surfaces should belower. Bhan says he noticed that after working atthe keyboards in the Science Center basement,which are placed too high, his wrist pain occurredmore often...
...Bhan's self-prescribed remedy of a new keyboardincluding a wrist rest, which matches doctors'recommendations, seems to have worked...
...made a tremendous difference," Bhan says."The pain is much reduced now. If I'm on thecomputer a lot, say writing a paper after workingon the computer all day. I might start noticing.But it's nowhere near as bad as it used...