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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children might prove an early harbinger of future RSI troubles. Podolsky sees this exponential growth in computer time behind what has been perceived as the ephemeral public life of RSIs. "In the past," she pointed out, "it was a bigger deal in grad schools." While the RSI Action Group, an undergraduate organization, was founded this year, its graduate school analog is already four years old. And now that many undergraduates are already dismissing the disease as old news, Podolsky reports meeting first-years who are recovering from RSIs developed in high school. Perhaps the sudden rise and fall...
...repetitive stress injury are correct) knew enough to tremble at the slightest twinge in our wrists. Idle hands would lapse unconsciously into the aptly-named "prayer stretch" as we invoked our various patron saints to protect us from the debilitating disease. These days, however, as the "RSI Action Group" mousepads at email terminals start to fray at the edges, the former scourge of the keyboard seems about as threatening as scurvy to most of us. In the words of one anonymous senior, it is "last year s disease...
...Chris Coley is the closest thing there is to an authority on RSI (or, to be technically correct, RSIs; RSI is, in the words of a Harvard-Radcliffe RSI Action Group handout, "an umbrella term for a variety of injuries: tendinitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, cubital tunnel syndrome, etc.") at Harvard. A physician at University Health Services (UHS), Dr. Coley has made a professional hobby of the disease. He candidly admits that "It s really something that most physicians know very little about." A survey he has conducted collaboratively with the Computer Science Department will, once examined, hopefully provide a quantitative...
...everyone sees a drop, however. Rachel W. Podolsky 00, co-chair of the RSI Action Group, attests that there is a significant number of students who are reporting RSIs this year, a population she labels a "large but silent majority." Indeed, Dr. Coley s numbers do not show a total disappearance, merely a dip. Even this trend, however, is puzzling. Why, in a student population that uses computers every bit as much as it did last year, should the RSI flag? Where, for that matter, did it come from in the first place...
...when I m dictating with [the voice-activation software] DragonDictate, where you have to pause between each word, I ll start to get really tense and then my arms start to hurt." Or similarly, "Sometimes I find that when I go and meet with another person in the RSI group and we re discussing what we re going to do in the meetings, afterward I feel like I hurt more because I ve been thinking about...