Word: keyboarding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Roach hasn't been so lucky. Her wrist pain still plagues her when she stays at the keyboard too long. This spring, she was forced to ask her boyfriend to type her senior thesis in linguistics...
...should the senior thesis writer whospent most of spring semester banging away at acomputer keyboard be worried about contractingcarpal tunnel syndrome, CTDs or tendonitis?According to Katz, the answer is a qualified...
Typing itself, if done properly, does not seemto increase the risk of wrist injury. However,ever, extreme flexion or extension of the wrist,such as might be the result of keyboard work inawkward positions, could lead to injury. Theoverwhelming majority of such incidents instudents are not of the majority of such incidentsin students are not of the same serious nature ascarpal tunnel syndrome, but can cause discomfortwhen performing many tasks...
...most important step in preventinginjury, doctors agree, is to take a good look atthe ergonomic, or work, environment. Katzrecommends that students keep keyboards near laplevel rather than higher, to avoid typing with abent wrist. And using keyboard wrist rests, whichare popping up all over campus, makes good sense,says Katz...