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...Perhaps the most often-asked question about RSIs is one of origins. Why haven t we heard of it before? Dr. Coley answers that RSIs are not new. In fact, "cumulative stress disorders," as he calls them, have been "well-known in a few professions for a long time. Meatpackers, as well as truck drivers and seamstresses, have had to deal with RSIs for years. The best known among those trades was carpal tunnel syndrome, an inflammation of the nerves in the forearm that often resulted from strenuous work with heavy vibrations-something along the lines of working a jackhammer...
...patients experiencing excrutiating pain that has no discernable physical origins. An October article in The New Yorker by Atul Gawande detailed the story of Rowland Scott Quinlan, an architect who experienced back pain so acute that he would vomit and for whom movement was so painful that he would often soil himself instead of getting up to go to the bathroom. But X-rays, C.T. scans and myriad other tests revealed nothing that could possibly account for the pain. Gawande s article also quoted several studies showing that pain perception varied widely between people undergoing identical experiences (e.g. surgical operations...
...ergonomic phenomena. For Dr. Katz, there is a danger in implying that the disorder is a psychological one. "There is just as much evidence for biological causation as for most other disorders and more than some." As for the seemingly provincial nature of disease, Dr. Coley responds that diseases often refuse to conform to what we would see as rational patterns. "We had 22 cases of whooping cough this year. It was just one of those blips you see as a clinician...
...first time that RSI has acted out and behaved irrationally. In the early 1980s Australia experienced an RSI pandemic, one which in some places disabled as much as 30 percent of its workforce. In other places, though, it remained unheard of. The incidence rate varied wildly, often among the same professions or even the same company, and no correlation could be found between the repetitiveness of a job or its ergonomics and the number of RSI cases reported. Strangest of all, by 1987, it had virtually disappeared; no one had it any more...
...take what you believe in and then make you look at it and think about why you believe in it, what you want to do about it and how you want to go about dealing with it. This is something I haven't experienced here at Harvard often...