> I'm beginning to get pain in my shoulder through over use of the mouse. > I have seen other alternatives like a mouse pen or a track ball mouse > and wonder if anyone has experience of these things and recommend their > use. > > It would have to work under Fedora 10 or Ubuntu of course :-)
I started suffering from RSI about 4 years or so ago now and managed to get a referral to a physiotherapist (fortunately I had private health insurance so didn't have to wait 9months). She was very helpful and provided me with tendon stretching exercises etc. which where a great long term help as well as loosening my shoulder muscles up which provided more immediate relief. I now use a simple Logitech MX400 which provides slightly better ergonomics than the normal cheap "flat" mice, but it isn't the thing that really helped. The physio' worked out that my particular problem was due to stretching too far out to the right to reach around the keyboard to grab the mouse, and from bad posture (partly due to a bad chair). Having fixed the layout of my work station, got the nicer Logitech mouse, and a narrower "split" ergonomic keyboard most of the problems no longer occur. If you have already been to the doctors then my apologies got assuming you hadn't yet. But if not it really is worth getting it looked into properly as sometimes it isn't what you might think is the real cause of the problem. In my case switching to an ergonomic mouse / tracker ball but not changing the keyboard would have been no help as the stretching would still have been happening and causing me problems. Having said all that, things like tracker balls etc. have all just worked for me out of the box. As others have said they are "just" mice and linux seems just fine with those nowadays. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
