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...Roach's wrist pain started nearly two yearsago, during a summer job in date entry when shewas spending 20 hours per week at the computerkeyboard. She says that she and a co-worker, whowas diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome, weren'tinstructed on the proper way to type in order toavoid wrist pain...
...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...
Curtin has noticed a definite rise in requestsfor work site evaluations, both for individualsand for offices. This year, she has alreadyperformed 173 such evaluations of individuals'work sites, indicating an increased awareness ofrisks for wrist injury...
Skoff has had many student patients, most ofwhom are musicians. In running fingers up and downpiano keys, or the neck of stringed instrument,for example, musicians perform repetitiousmovements. Davis says he knows students in the HROwho have had or continue the have cases of handand wrist injury...
...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...