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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 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%