RSI a big problem in IT
Monday, 30 June 2008
Is there an IT worker out there who hasn't suffered from Repetitive Strain Injury before? It's the type of thing you're sceptical about until it happens to you.
Apparently RSI cases are at an all time high. They soared by 30% last year. In the US it cost business over US$600 million a year, according to a story at Computer World.
Microsoft claims it's because of the increased use of laptops and other mobile devices. This is after a poll it conducted among office workers. It showed 68% suffered from work related injuries.
When I first got into this biz, I had terrible problems with RSI and I had to train myself how to type and sit properly. I still get shore shoulders sometimes from overuse of the mouse.
I worry about what this type of work is going to do to our generation. Will we all be cripples in our sixties?
Read the full story at Computer World.
Paul Knapp (editor@brainbox.com.au)
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to many RSI comming The design of the keyboard is ging to turn us all into tards in the long term. This could be the new asbestos generation if you know what I mean. Hope these companys are around in the future, they better invest in lawlers and a new RSI fund to fund the law suits. MC macca, 06/30/2008 02:31:16 AM
Stop complainingIt's not just IT that uses keyboards a lot. A lot of professionals do now. My guess is that your RSI is due more to being a bunch of tossers, rather than because of the profession you have chosen. Stop it, or you'll go blind as well. Or make your code smarter, so you don't have to type as much :-)). MK, 06/30/2008 02:45:48 AM
That's a bit unjustified MKMK, normally I'd be the first to sink the boot into some of the losers here (gloomy I'm looking your way)... But RSI is an important issue. That said, it seems to strike the middle aged, mother of three, female public servants more than most IT guys... (maybe the public servants are just the ones who can take it seriously, most IT guys are on contract and have no provision for sick days) This is my own personal observation and not based on any fact... anon, 06/30/2008 03:52:45 AM
Losers!MBBS <> Loser. B Sc (Comp Sc) = Loser. Gloomyshoes, 06/30/2008 05:26:55 AM
gloomyYou are getting near to GL is terms of annoyance. brownie, 06/30/2008 06:55:36 AM
Urgent medicalsGloomy shoe with much RSI but of right hand's only. Recent comments show such proofs. If continue perhaps need urgent medicals at nut doctors office. Brownie comments of slight confusions. Thought was Leopard and Brownie now old pals. Great Leopard GL Champaine Coder Great Leopard, 06/30/2008 09:58:06 AM
a rsi bogus Great Leopard is bogus. He pretends to write in chinglish. Actually he is an curry macca, 06/30/2008 09:24:17 PM
Re:Urgent medicals<i>Gloomy shoe with much RSI but of right hand's only. Recent comments show such proofs. If continue perhaps need urgent medicals at nut doctors office.</i>Delightful and truthful post,Great Leopard! I love it a lot. Hunter, 07/02/2008 06:17:25 AM
Share the loadI'm ambidextrous. You need to be for drive-throughs, playing tomb raider, etc. There. The bar has been lowered to about here. Laz, 07/02/2008 06:53:19 AM
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