mouse to relieve stress to wrist Posted: 01-18-08 10:25am
I am currently an Industrial Design
student at Auburn University. My project
this semester is to design a computer
mouse that relieves the stress applied to
the wrist. Any help or suggestions would
be extremely helpful to me.
How do you alleviate your wrist/finger
pain while using a mouse?
Do you prefer a larger, more bulky mouse,
or a smaller, slim, low profile mouse?
What are the typical problems you have
using a mouse?
If you could add anything to your mouse,
what would it be?
Thanks for all of your help..
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jberges
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 23 Jan 2008 Posts: 2
What I find Posted: 01-23-08 15:53pm
Hello,
I find that when using a mouse my carpal
tunnel becomes really inflamed not only
from moving my wrist side to side, but
also moving the mouse forward and back.
A possible design would be having a really
long mouse that keeps the wrist straight
with a thin cusion under it. moving the
mouse L-R would then still keep the wrist
straight becaus eyou would be moving your
forearm. I don't know how to solve the
forward back problem because it puts a lot
of tension on the lateral epicondese (sp?)
muscle that runs up to the elbow (tennis
elbow muscle). Holding the mouse ahead of
my hand, and not moving my wrist but
drawing the mouse under my palm with my
fingers adds a lot of tension to this
muscle for me.
