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There's a long list of Warm Mouse Reviews and Giveaways happening right now. Get in on the fun and join the contests. Win a free Warm Mouse, Warm Mouse Pad, Heated Mouse Hand Warmer pouch or Warm Keyboard Pad. The reviews and giveaways are sponsored by Warm-Mouse-Heated-Keyboard.com.

Here's the list of current giveaways..... Click the link to enter the contest for the item listed. Visit all the blogs and enter all the contests!

• Feed Your Pig Blog - ValueRays® Warm Keyboard Pad
• Go Graham Go - ValueRays® Warm Keyboard Pad
• Barefoot Mommies - ValueRays® Warm Mouse
• Aunt Pam's Closet - ValueRays® USB Mouse Hand Warmer
• Pink & Posh - ValueRays® USB Mouse Hand Warmer
• Blogmania - ValueRays® Warm Mouse Pad
• Simply Stacie - ValueRays® Warm Mouse Pad
• Miscellaneous Finds 4U - ValueRays® Warm Keyboard Pad
• Babas Farm Life - ValueRays® USB Mouse Hand Warmer

Visit the blogs listed above and make comments to win the prize. See the prizes and more comments listed below. For more details about each item, click the links above and visit Warm Mouse, Heated Keyboard.

Here's a little about each item and a link to the contest blog:

ValueRays Warm Mouse Pad Giveaway at Simply Stacie by Stacie!

Don't miss the chance to win a Warm Mouse Pad at Simply Stacie Blog. Read all about it here. The Warm Mouse Pad creates a soothing surface to rest your mouse hand. It's not hot, it's a comfortable warm surface. It also has a 4-port USB hub to plug in extra USB devices. It's safe for the computer mouse, the computer and people using it. The infrared heated pad is a healthy source of therapeutic heat. If your hands get cold, a warm mouse pad is for you.

The Warm Mouse Pad also has a blue light trim. It glows at night. There are two USB plugs to operate and control each function. The mousepad measures about 10" x 10" and is a slick black and gray color. It fits perfectly inside the Mouse Hand Warmer pouch shown below.

ValueRays® Warm Mouse - A Warm Mouse, Heated Keyboard Review by Jeri from Pink & Posh

Here's what Jeri has to say about the Warm Mouse! "I am a late night blogger. Usually while my family sleeps, I am bringing you the coolest and and most useful products for women and moms. Without the hustle and bustle of children and chores, I get to slow down and take a break to focus on Pink & Posh. The only disadvantage to this comes from my post-children hormonal reactions. Since having my babies, when I relax, I get cold. I know....weird, right? Well, now I have found a bit of a solution to this. Warm Mouse Heated Keyboard is a company that specializes in computer accessories made especially for people like me who are oddly cold-natured or even for those who have hand pain. I had a chance to review their ValueRays® Warm Mouse, designed to solve the cold hand problem while using the computer."

Head over to Pink & Posh to win the USB Mouse Hand Warmer blanket pictured below.

Warrm Mouse by ValueRays® - A Website Review for Warm Mouse, Heated Keyboard by Pam at Aunt Pam's Closet

Pam reviewed the Warm Mouse, and the USB Mouse Hand Warmer is a current giveaway. Visit Aunt Pam's Closet to enter the contest. Pam said, "Do you have cold hands or suffer from any condition that makes your hands hurt, your gonna love this new product from Value Rays, I got the chance to try it out, WOW its awesome it made my hand feel really good and relaxed, I had never heard of a product like this before its awesome!"

Shown above is the USB Mouse Hand Warmer with the Warm Mouse and Warm Mouse Pad. The three items used together create a very therapeutic infrared heat experience for a aching mouse hand. Many people suffer with carpal tunnel syndrome or other computer related hand injuries. Infrared heated computer hand warmers help relieve hand pain and provide healing to sore hands.

ValueRays Warm Keyboard Pad – Exactly What I Needed! by Connie at Miscellaneious Finds 4U

Connie suffers with Repetitive Motion Injury and MS. She works from home and using the computer for her work. She's considered an ecommerce entrepreneur and internet pioneer. Here's what Connie had to say about the Warm Keyboard pad: "I’ve tried many different types of wrist rests to solve the problem. Stand-alone ones as well as one built-into laptop desks. None have worked well, couldn’t be placed in the proper location, or wouldn’t stay put once there. I’d about given up and resolved that I’d be continuing the massive amounts of Ibuprofen I’ve been taking for the pain and continuing to use rolled towels as a pseudo wrist rest until I found the Valuerays Warm Keyboard Pad! It takes care of about 80% of my issues – if I used a traditional desktop computer it’d be 100% relief!" Head over to Miscellaneous Finds 4U and win the Warm Keyboard Pad!

For more about Warm Mouse Reviews, visit the Warm Reviews page.

Here's an extensive article and glossary about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) and Cumulative Trauma Disorder (CTD) are computer-related hand injuries we need to be more educated about. For pictures and more information about computer-related hand injuries visit the Learning Center at Warm Mouse, Heated Keyboard!

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: The Rise of An Occupational Illness
by Carla R. McMillan

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS), a personal illness categorized under cumulative trauma disorder or repetitive motion trauma, is the fastest growing occupational illness in the United States. Activity centers inside the wrist in the carpal tunnel, a collection of 8-10 tendons surrounding the median nerve. The tendons slide easily encased in the synovial sheath, however when subjected to repeated, limited range motions (i.e. typing), the sheath can swell and fill with fluid, putting pressure on the median nerve and sending pain into the fingers. Symptoms of CTS are the burning, prickling, and tingling within the wrist or first three fingers and thumb. The highest prevalence of self-reported CTS is in the mail service, health care, construction, assembly line, and fabrication industries. In the past, CTS has been limited to the manual labor industry, but a trend is rising in the computer industry as well. American workers who use keyboards daily in work involving extensive data entry and word processing make up 45-75 million of the working population. Twenty-five percent of these operators are inflicted with CTS, and that percentage could double by the year 2000.

Risk factors most strongly associated with exposure to CTS are the repetitive bending or twisting of the hands and wrist at work and the use of vibrating tools. Other factors are the wrist posture and shape while working, table height, the angle of the elbows, and repetitive motion. Factors which are not work related can also contribute to CTS. These include age, race, gender (studies have found that for unknown reasons, females are at higher risk than males), diabetes, and arthritis. Obesity is also a risk factor because water retention adds to muscle and tension stress. Workers with a Body Mass Index (BMI) higher than 29 are four times more likely to present with median mononeuropathy than those with a BMI of less than 25.

Although there are a great number of elements putting workers at risk, CTS is easily preventable and can be controlled. Some preventive measures include resting hands periodically during repetitive activity, exercising to condition and strengthen the hand/arm muscles, minimizing repetition of any movement, varying the position of the arm when performing an activity, and maintaining, not increasing, the pace of work. Reasonable weight loss and diet adjustments can also alleviate CTS. Preventive measures are divided into two main categories, ergonomics and behavior change measures.

In the computing industry, ergonomics has been implemented in the chair, desktop, computer keyboard and mouse. A debatable topic has been the wrist rest, designed to improve wrist posture and lessen wrist extension. It is still unknown whether these help as a comprehensive ergonomics plan or not. The rest should improve wrist posture and support the arm and it should not exert pressure on the Carpal Tunnel area. The wrist rest should not be confused with the palm rest, because it supports only the palm. Users can benefit from the wrist rest because it doesnt allow awkward keystroke or wrist extension. Examples of behavior change measures are worker training, education on correct posture during repetitive tasks, and medical intervention, such as usage of an anti-inflammatory agent (i.e., Aspirin), or surgery, to correct the injury.

After being diagnosed with CTS, there are several levels of treatment. Wrist splinting is efficient yet the angle of immobilization is varied. A blind study compared the relief between splints at 20? and neutral extensions. The study found the neutral angle provided superior symptom relief. Iontophoresis of dexamethasone sodium phosphate has been used for years in treatment of many musculoskeletal inflammatory disorders, and is reported to be used in CTS treatment as well. A non-randomized study using wrist splinting with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medication and iontophoresis of dexamethasone sodium phosphate revealed a success rate comparable with splinting and injection of dexamethasone into the carpal tunnel space. For a six-month follow-up, out of 23 cases of early to mild CTS, 17% were successfully treated with splints plus non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications alone. Of the 83%, which failed this treatment and proceeded with iontophoresis of dexamethasone, 58% had a positive response rate. Surgery is generally used as a last resort. The former procedure was to cut the transverse carpal ligament, however an endoscopic procedure was developed to open the carpal tunnel through a small incision in the wrist. Following surgery and treatment, it is estimated 23% of CTS patients return to their profession.

Preventative measures are being taken in various at-risk industries, however construction is an industry where risk still outweighs prevention. A study of 18 disabled and 47 active and retired sheet metal workers showed that symptoms of neck, arm, and hand pain are common in sheet metal workers who are actively working. CTS/hand pain is associated with more time working in the shop, and shoulder pain/injuries are associated with working overhead. This data suggests a division of work tasks in the construction industry increase the risk of Cumulative Trauma Disorder.

Both private and public legal/medical sources have confirmed repetitive strain injuries as the fastest growing occupational hazard today, costing billions of dollars and millions of workdays each year. The cost associated with CTS and Cubital Tunnel Syndrome (CBTS) is immense, each accounting for $1 of every $3 spent for workers compensation, with the cost being $3,500 to $35,000 per case. Repetitive stress injuries have the highest reported total average for workers compensation cost per case from $14,000 to $29,000. The occurrence of CTS as a work-related injury is on the rise, however some patients have had trouble being reimbursed by their insurance for these injuries. In a New York Occupational Health Clinic, 79% of the claims werent initially accepted by the workers compensation insurer and of those challenged cases, 96.3% were accepted later as work-related injuries. Mean time from claim to settlement was 429 days, physician treatment and workers compensation board approval 226 days, and surgery authorization from the board was 318 days.

In its most severe form, CTS can become a lifelong disability that prevents the afflicted patient from performing physically stressful and everyday occupational duties. CTS is a disorder that should be carefully monitored and controlled in all work fields, but workers should not be dismayed by the high risk factors. Through prevention, treatment, and acceptance in the work field, CTS is a personal illness that can be confronted and defeated.

Glossary
Anti-inflammatory agent: An agent that counteracts or suppresses the inflammatory process.
Behavior change measures: Changing the protocol of high risk job tasks or occupations.
Body Mass Index (BMI): A person's weight in pounds divided by height in inches squared, multiplied by 705.
Cubital Tunnel Syndrome (CBTS): Compression or injury of the ulnar nerve in the cubital tunnel.
Cubital tunnel: Passageway between the bony prominence of the inside of the elbow (medial epicondyle) and the tip of the elbow (olecranon process).
Cumulative Trauma Disorder (CTD) Response to the repetitive motion and overuse of a muscle in an incorrect or static posture.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS): A condition caused by compression of a nerve where it passes through the wrist into the hand and characterized especially by weakness, pain, and disturbances of sensation in the hand.
Dexamethasone: A synthetic glucocorticoid C22H29FO5 used especially as an anti-inflammatory agent.
Ergonomics: The study of how the laws of nature affect you and your work environment. In an office environment, this includes interaction with workspace, computers, tools, and furniture.
Iontophoresis: The introduction of an ionized substance (as a drug) through intact skin by the application of a direct electric current.
Median mononeuropathy: A disorder involving loss of movement or sensation to an area, caused by damage to the median nerve.
Median nerve: The nerve that takes its course along the middle of the arm and forearm through the hand, lying between the ulnar and musculo-spiral and radial nerves.
Repetitive motion trauma: The injury to living tissue caused by movement applied to muscles and joints the same way all the time.
Repetitive strain injuries: A category of injuries involving damage to muscles, tendons and nerves caused by overuse or misuse; these injuries can result from a single incident or develop slowly over time.
Synovial sheath: An encasing which serves to facilitate the gliding of tendons in the osseo-fibrous canals through which they pass.