I don't know about the ring binders, but you could try using a trackball
instead of the mouse. It's effectively an inverted mouse - it doesn't
have be moved, but the cursor is moved by using a ball on the top
surface, and she should be able to rest her hand on the body of the
device.
>Help please !?
>I have a lady whose job involves data entry using keyboard and mouse;
>handwriting and filing.
>She has had a large amount of sickness absence due to pain in her wrist,
>corrective surgery - nerve release in forearm, carpel tunnel release and
>trigger finger correction on R arm
>She has been data entrying over the last 3 weeks and is now complaining of
>burning in wrist. She states that this is related to the mouse and not the
>keyboard (although there is an issue with managers about whether this was
>related to her other job that is keyobarding only not using the mouse). She
>feels that the problem is related to her resting her wrist on the wrist rest
>when using the mouse. I can appreciate that if she is resting on this area
>for a long time she is likely to have these problems.
>I wondered if there was a mouse about that took the weight of the hand /
>wrist area on the palm of the hand ? or is there another solution to this
>problem.
>Also, this lady is filing A3 landscape and A4 portrait documents into an A3
>landscape ring binder file. There are about 200 documents in these files at
>a ratio of 3 A4's to 1 A3. The weight is not what I would consider to be
>excessive, although we have discussed two handed holds etc.
>The pulling apart of the ring binders is causing a problem. This is an
>enforced movement with a slight twist in the wrists during the motion. It is
>logical to us that we change these 500 files to level arch or clamp binders,
>the Stores Manager is however unable to find a manufacturer of A3 landscape
>files that have level arch or clamp binders (with an additional problem of
>the spacing between the 4 holes being 76mm 90mm 76mm. The only thing we have
>found that is a ring binder that opens by pressing on two tabs at either end
>of the binding mechanism. This requires more effort than the ring binder
>pull. Is there an answer to this one ?
>Amanda Dowson
>Health Services Manager
>Bradford College
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