Advice please.
A student studying on an animation course.
This involves using the computer mouse a great deal. As a
consequence of which, (plus poor posture, seating, stress,
etc, which have now been addressed) the student developed
RSI. Advice to the student from an "expert" in RSI has
amongst other things recommended that as an alternative to
the mouse a joystick be used that has the clicker button on
the top of the stick and which is operated by the thumb.
With this device the hand is held in a "more natural
position" apparently. Be that as it may, the thumb will
still be used for pressing the clicker button a lot. Could
this over time cause strain or prevent/slow the hand
healing?
What are the best alterntives to a conventional mouse when
this device is used much more than the keyboard? The above
joystick? Trackball? How about a drawing tablet?
Bryan Jones
Equal Opportunities Adviser
London Guildhall University
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