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Hand Exercises for Rheumatoid Arthritis Hand Pain
from the Mayo Clinic

Bend your fingers

The following hand exercises show moves that can provide arthritis pain relief. You can do these hand exercises daily or, preferably, several times a day. You might find it helps to do hand exercises while soaking your hands in warm water. Know your limitations, though. Hand exercises shouldn't cause pain.

Start your hand exercises by relaxing your hand. Start with your fingers straight and close together. Bend the end and middle joints of your fingers. Keep your wrist and knuckles straight. Moving slowly and smoothly, return your hand to the first position.

Make a fist

Start with your fingers straight and spread apart. Make a loose, gentle fist and wrap your thumb around the outside of your fingers. Be careful not to squeeze your fingers together too tightly. Moving slowly and smoothly, return to the starting position. Repeat. Perform this exercise with both hands.

Open your hand wide

Spread your fingers apart as wide as you can and hold that position. Slowly relax your fingers and bring them together. Return to the open-wide position. Repeat with each hand and gradually increase the number of repetitions.

Touch your fingertips

Straighten your fingers and thumb. Bend your thumb across your palm, touching the tip of your thumb to the pad of your hand just below your pinky finger. If you can't make your thumb touch, just stretch as far as you can. Return your thumb to its starting position, as shown in image 3.

For the next exercise, form the letter O by touching your thumb to each fingertip, as shown in images 4 through 6. Moving slowly and smoothly, touch your index finger to your thumb, then straighten your fingers. Touch your middle finger to your thumb and straighten. Follow with your ring and pinky fingers.


Walk your fingers

Rest your hand on a flat surface, such as a tabletop, with your palm facing down and your fingers spread slightly apart. Moving one finger at a time, slowly walk your fingers toward your thumb. Start by lifting and moving your index finger toward your thumb. Follow by lifting and moving your middle finger toward your thumb. Proceed with moving your ring finger and then your pinky finger toward your thumb. Don't move your wrist or thumb while doing this exercise. Repeat with your other hand.

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Best Range of Motion Exercises for Rheumatoid Arthritis
by Lori Batcheller
from disaboom.com

Range of motion exercises are one part of a comprehensive rheumatoid arthritis treatment plan that generally also includes strengthening and endurance exercises and medication to help decrease pain, improve joint mobility, muscle strength, and endurance and help maintain a healthy weight. Regular exercise can also decrease fatigue and promote feelings of well-being.

What is Range of Motion Exercise?
Range of motion exercises are gentle stretching movements designed to move each joint through its full range of motion. Range of motion exercise helps to keep each joint fully mobile and prevent the stiffness and deformities commonly associated with rheumatoid arthritis. The movements also help keep bone and cartilage—the protective cushions at the ends of bones—strong and healthy by bringing nutrients to the joints and removing waste products. The gentle nature of these exercises make them ideal for people with rheumatoid arthritis who might shy away from movement due to pain.

How and When to do Your Arthritis Exercise
The following range of motion exercise program is designed to address the joints most commonly affected in rheumatoid arthritis: hands, wrists, feet, ankles, knees, shoulders, and elbows. For the best results, perform the exercises daily when your arthritis symptoms are least problematic. Avoid exercise if the joint feels hot since exercise can increase swelling, tenderness and heat. Some people find that exercising after morning stiffness subsides and before afternoon fatigue sets in is ideal. Begin with 10 repetitions of each motion on both sides of your body, increasing or decreasing the number of repetitions depending upon how you feel. Try to do at least a few repetitions every day. If doing all the exercises at once is too tiring, do one or two joints at a time spread throughout the day.

Listen to Your Body
Always listen to the signals from your body to gear the intensity and amount of exercise. Overdoing exercise, especially during a flare-up of arthritis symptoms, can aggravate or worsen the condition. While some amount of discomfort is okay, if the pain lasts more than two hours following exercising, back off and do fewer repetitions until the pain subsides.

Before starting any new exercise, consult your doctor to discuss your exercise program and goals to make sure you are exercising safely. A physical therapist can help design a program uniquely suited to your arthritis symptoms.

Range of Motion Exercise Program
1. Gently squeeze your fingers, making a fist, then stretch your fingers open and apart.

2. Rotate your wrists clockwise, then counterclockwise.

3. Bend and straighten your elbows.

4. Sitting with your forearms resting on your lap or a table, palms facing up, turn the palms down, rotating at the elbow, then turn the palms up.

5. While sitting, straighten and bend your knees.

6. Flex and point your ankle.

7. Draw the alphabet with your foot.

8. Pendulum range of motion: Standing, hold on to the back of a chair with your right hand and bend over so that you are facing the floor. Allow your left arm to dangle straight down. Gently draw circles clockwise then counter clockwise, beginning with small circles and gradually drawing larger ones.

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Rheumatoid Arthritis
from Med.Mun.CA

Rheumatoid Arthritis is part of a systemic connective tissue disease with an insidious onset, and a prolonged course marked by exacerbations and remissions of joint pain and swelling. As in this case, the patient often does not remember the first onset of symptoms. Rheumatoid arthritis effects about 1% of the population. Women are affected three times as frequently as men, and onset is usually in the patients thirties and forties. As in this case, there is usually symmetrical involvement of both hands.

The etiology of rheumatoid arthritis is unknown, although current theories lean toward a triggering event such as an infection in a genetically susceptible person, which unleashes an immune response which directly or indirectly destroys the synovial membranes, connective tissues and bone. Many patients with rheumatoid arthritis have HLA-DR4, and roughly 80% test positive for rheumatoid factor, a macroglobin molecule in the blood.

Clinically, the typical presentation is of symmetrical involvement of both hands, with morning pain and stiffness, swollen joints (particularly PIP, MCP, and wrist) and rheumatoid nodules (subcutaneous nodules that begin as vasculitis and become necrotic with fibrous, mononuclear and granulation tissues). In this case, the on the patient's forearm is a rheumatoid nodule. The underside (extensor surface) of the forearm distal to the elbow is a typical spot for rheumatoid nodules.

Radiographically, there is a typical presentation of bony erosion (white arrowheads). Progressive joint deformities (large white arrows) are due to muscle spasm, atrophy and contracture, as well as the erosion of articular surfaces, stretched ligaments and tendon rupture. In addition, pannus, a granular inflammation, creeps across the joint surfaces and chokes off the normal nutrient supply, causing cartilage necrosis, bone erosion, and ultimately the fusion of bones (ankylosis). This is seen as a lack of space around the carpal and metacarpal bones (black arrowheads).

Rheumatoid arthritis can be a terribly debilitating disease. The pain is treated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories, while the progress of the disease is hindered by exercise, physiotherapy and disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs).

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Is Your Computer Killing You Softly?
Rieva Lesonsky

Being an entrepreneur means working, if not quite 24/7, darn close most days. I spend a good part of my day (and night) on my computers, writing, researching, reading, and Tweeting. As a result, I have occasional wrist pain and an almost constant neck ache.

Brian Bentow, founder and owner of Computer Athlete Media, based in Newport Beach, Calif., and author of The Computer Athlete's Handbook: Your Guide to a Healthier, Happier Techy Lifestyle says that I -- along with millions of other Americans -- am suffering needlessly. Bentow preaches his mission "to help people live happier and healthier techy lifestyles" via his Web site Computer Athlete Central. Intrigued by his message, I contacted Bentow to talk to him about how we can all feel better and be more productive.

Rieva Lesonsky: As technology advances and gets more portable, we entrepreneurs tend to rely on it more and more. We're using computers for many more hours. How big a problem is this?

Brian Bentow: The problem -- that people are suffering from cumulative trauma disorders, serious health issues, and other side effects from their techy lifestyles -- is enormous and pervasive. According to the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), 60 percent of people who use a computer for work experience some physical discomfort. This problem also destroys lives and careers, decreases productivity, increases workers compensation costs, and is going to get worse unless we take steps to prevent it.

Lesonsky: Any estimate on the dollar amount of health injuries directly related to computer usage?

Bentow: OSHA reports that the direct costs of repetitive strain injuries (RSI) in the U.S. are between $15 and $20 billion annually.

Lesonsky: What does it cost companies in lost productivity?

Bentow: Any way you look at it, the cost is significant to enormous. An unhappy employee who is in pain is less likely to work hard for your company. In the worst case, you can lose any one of your top employees due to a computer-related injury, on a temporary or permanent basis. It can literally push a company from viability over the edge to a black hole.

Lesonsky: What are most common computer-related injuries? How do most people get hurt?

Bentow: The most common computer-related injuries are carpal tunnel, tenosynovitis (trigger finger), wrist pain, tennis elbow, thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS), and computer back. People get these injuries by slouching, overusing their hands and fingers, stress, and by not keeping their body in neutral positions while using the computer.

Lesonsky: Brian, you say “put your body in a neutral position." Can you explain what this means?

Bentow: In general, the neutral position for a joint is the most natural position for that joint. It also requires the least amount of effort and is typically the midpoint in the range of that joint. For your wrists the neutral position is straight, in line, and roughly parallel to the floor. For your elbows and knees, it is at a 90-degree angle. When all your individual body parts (head, shoulders, knees, hands, wrists, forearms, back, hips, etc.) are in a neutral position, then you have reached the goal of having your body in a neutral position.

Lesonsky: Let's talk about a "cure." What can we do to alleviate these injuries?

Bentow: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In more extreme cases, there could be permanent nerve damage. Treatment depends on the type and severity of your injury. [This can range from] rest, physical therapy, massage, and time to medical intervention.

It is much simpler and less expensive to avoid and prevent injury than it is to treat it once you, or one of your employees, are injured. One of my favorite tips is to use your larger appendages to do more of the work. For example, use a foot pedal to push "Shift" and "Control" with your feet [rather than on the keyboard] which increases blood flow and offloads some work [from your hands] to your legs. You can also push "Shift" and "Control" with your middle and index fingers instead of using your pinky. Also, make sure you buy the right equipment and learn to use it properly.

Lesonsky: What can I do to help my employees in their workspace or cubicles?

Bentow: There is a lot you can do to help your employees compute in comfort. For example, you can provide adjustable height desks, monitor stands, adjustable keyboard trays, adjustable split keyboards, and a vertical computer mouse. All of this can be done on a reasonable budget. You can also provide ergonomic training seminars, ergonomist evaluations, and software to monitor how users spend their time on their computers.

Lesonsky: Chairs are so crucial to ergonomic comfort. What do you recommend?

Bentow: You need a comfortable chair with lumbar support that you can sit in for 5+ hours at a time. Also, because armrests tend to create more problems than they solve -- they can get in the way of keeping your elbows at a neutral 90 degree angle and often support bad habits like using your mouse and keyboard on a surface that is too high -- buy a chair that allows you to remove them. I use a Raynor Executive Leather Chair with lumbar support with no armrests.

Lesonsky: What about laptops? They seem to inevitably cause pain. What's the best way to use a laptop?

Bentow: The healthiest way to use a laptop is in combination with an external mouse and keyboard so that you can keep your shoulders, wrists, arms, elbows, and neck at neutral positions while you work. The most common way to do this is to attach an adjustable keyboard and mouse tray to your desk. Then you can place your laptop on a stand or simply a stack of books to get it to the right height for your neck.

If you are on a tight budget or [traveling], put your laptop on a stack of books, place your keyboard on your lap and your mouse on top of a stack of books on a chair next to you so that it is at the right height. When I travel for business, I bring my external vertical mouse and split Kinesis Freestyle keyboard, which easily fit in my carry-on luggage.

Lesonsky: Lots of products claim they're ergonomic. How do you know they really are and it's not just marketing hype?

Bentow: For keyboards make sure they allow you to keep your wrists, elbows, and shoulders in neutral positions. [You'll want one] with low key pressure and a smooth keystroke. Adjustable split keyboards like the Kinesis Freestyle or the Goldtouch Go! help keep your body in a neutral position.

Check the specs to compare the key pressure of different keyboards. Finally, try different keyboards [to determine] whether they have a smooth stroke. Look for a mouse that fits in your hand and hopefully doesn't require you to twist your arm.

Lesonsky: What bad habits should we stop practicing?

One of the worst things to do is take anti-inflammatories or pain medication when you're in pain from using the computer. Taking medication may let you work past your normal pain threshold but that can lead to serious injury or even permanent nerve damage.

Other common bad habits to avoid: slouching, excessive switching between applications, twisting your wrists in order to press two keys at the same time like Shift A, sitting on your leg, and lying in bed with your laptop.

Lesonsky: What must we do to stay healthier and more productive?

Bentow: Let's face it -- our lives are incredibly stressful. We have monetary concerns, deadlines, relationship problems, nonstop news, and are constantly bombarded with an almost infinite amount of information. It is not uncommon for our brains to get overstimulated and our bodies to atrophy, so we must learn to eat healthfully, stay hydrated, and manage our stress.

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Of Mice and Men (and Women, and Children…)
by Edward Trumbo from etwriter
Filed under: Ergonomics, computers, design
Tags: computers, design, Ergonomics, mouse

I wrote previously about my difficulties with the computer mouse, and I’m pleased to report I’ve made some progress in relieving the strain on my wrist and index finger. I disabled the mouse wheel — the temptation to use it while scrolling was just too strong, and I believe it was the main source of my finger stress. In my main applications, I’ve disabled as many toolbars as reasonably possible, opting to use keyboard shortcuts instead.

Given an opportunity I would use the keyboard exclusively, but the design of most websites would make this impractical. Additionally, there are some applications where some kind of pointing device is necessary. As long as I must supplement the keyboard with a device capable of interacting with the graphical world, I want to be sure the device I’m using won’t damage or cripple me, while still providing all the speed and convenience of a mouse.

I’ve used the three mainstream mouse alternatives — the trackball, the touchpad and the TouchPoint “eraser-head” — and find none of them an adequate replacement. Either they lack speed, sufficient fine control or they become too difficult to scroll while holding down a button. Sometimes for the sake of convenience I’ll use these if they’re already embedded in my laptops, such as the touchpad in my HP Pavillion or the TouchPoint in my Fujitsu Lifebook, but for anything elaborate I resort to an external mouse.

This past week, I discovered alternatives that make me wonder why these haven’t become more mainstream. There are two styles of traditional mice designed to operate vertically, as opposed to the forearm/wrist-twisting horizontal mouse:

– the Evoluent Vertical Ergonomic Mouse
– the 3M Renaissance Vertical Mouse

Right now, I’m leaning toward the 3M model — its joystick grip and thumb-accessible buttons interest me. I plan to order one and I’ll post a review here soon.

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The very first computer accessory used for the promotional purposes was the Mouse Mats. Demand for these Mouse Mats quickly took off and has remained high ever since. They have large print areas, typically 200 x 240mm, so good use of graphics can produce great imaging. The original Hard Top Mouse Mat was capable of being printed in four-color process so as to suit almost all the marketing purposes - from a soft and subtle to high impact. The Mouse Mats are available in a wide range of forms including liquid-filled to your own color scheme, textile-covered , inexpensive soft and flexible, lenticular, bespoke- shaped, tough plastic and many more. They are also produced with integral wrist rests and calculators. Since then, the computer mouse has also undergone great amount of advancements. The other computer accessory used for the promotional purposes is the flash drive. The flash drive can actually be used as a gift item which can be presented to your customers. This flash drive would contain all the detailed information about the products and services your business firm offers, which would be helpful in attracting the clients. Initially, the memory sizes available for the flash drives were 32 an 64mb, but as time passed they were being produced with larger-sized capacities and demand for these larger ones meant they became less and less expensive as more and more were produced - as with numerous other products.

USB’s are the other computer accessories which have been used for the promotional purposes. You can easily buy these USB’s and gift them to your clients who would find them to be extremely beneficial.

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Logitech Sees Q1 Operating Loss
By Reuters

Logitech, the world's largest computer mouse maker, disappointed markets by posting a wider-than-expected fourth-quarter loss as the global economic downturn dampened consumers' appetite for its products. The company painted a gloomy outlook for the first quarter, but Chief Executive Gerald Quindlen told Reuters this could be the turning point in the year for Logitech.


"Although we expect Q1 to be the low point in operating results there are signs that demand is stabilizing," Gerald Quindlen told Reuters in an interview. The fourth-quarter net loss of $35 million fell well short of analysts' forecasts and compared with a year-earlier profit of $60.3 million. "The historic (sales) growth levels of 15 percent are certainly not a thing of the past," Quindlen said, adding that it was "just a question of time" before Logitech returned to a profit margin of 32 to 34 percent.

Consumers are reining in spending as their savings portfolios tumble in value and many worry about their jobs. Retailers are also reluctant to build up stock in the face of sluggish demand as the economic crisis bites. "Logitech's results are very disappointing," Sal. Oppenheim analyst Nicolas von Stackelberg said, adding the worst was probably yet to come. Logitech sees first-quarter sales of $300 million to $320 million and an operating loss of $40 million to $50 million. The first quarter is traditionally the group's weakest period.

Fourth-quarter sales fell 32 percent to $408 million as a stronger dollar weighed, but Logitech said its market share was largely stable, and in some product categories it had even managed to grow. "It seems that Logitech had to, and will, clean out old inventory with high discounts," said Helvea analyst Tomas Hilfing. "As we had assumed, retailers seem to be keeping low inventory levels currently." Logitech said it will reduce shipments of its products and push promotional activities to help lower stock levels at shops.

Quindlen said further job cuts were unlikely after the group said in January it was cutting 15 percent of its salaried workforce -- or around 500 jobs. Analysts had expected Logitech to post a net loss of $3 million, according to the average estimate in a Reuters poll of 11 analysts.

(Additional reporting by Andrew Thompson in Zurich and Jennifer Robin Raj in Bangalore; Writing by Katie Reid; Editing by Jon Loades-Carter)

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Easy Help for Hurting Hands
from the National Women's Health Resource Center's e-newsletter, HealthyWomen Take 10

To stay fit, we work on strengthening everything from our hearts to our calf muscles. Our hands often get no exercise attention at all—that is, until they start hurting.

Hands may ache from repetitive motion or overuse if you enjoy tennis or other racquet sports, have a computer-based job or play a musical instrument. Arthritis also causes hand pain. Even without those specific stressors, the numerous bones, muscles and ligaments in our hands and fingers literally carry the load of many daily activities and sometimes hurt as a result.

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Hand Helper #1: Simple Stretch
Open hand flat.
Make a fist, keeping thumb straight, outside fist.
Slide fingertips up palm until they come close to the base of your fingers (or as close as you can without feeling pain).
Hold stretch for a few seconds.

Hand Helper #2: Hand-Wrist Stretch
Open hand flat.
Make a fist, keeping thumb straight, outside fist.
Bend wrist downward toward palm.
Straighten fingers and stretch wrist in opposite direction.
Repeat for each hand, up to 10 times.

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Scrunch a piece of paper into a small ball in your hand.
Squeeze and repeat. (We told you these were easy!)
You can also do this exercise with a tennis ball or small, flexible rubber ball.

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Hold hand flat, palm up.
Bring thumb in to touch the base of the little finger.
Swing thumb away and back out to side.
Then touch thumb to each fingertip, one by one, forming an "O."
Repeat several times.

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Curing Wrist and Hand Pain
from Good Health 'n You

In most cases of pain in the wrist and hand, cervical manipulation is the treatment of choice. Patients respond rapidly to the treatment and all symptoms disappear within two or three weeks.

Pain in the wrist and hand may be due to varied factors. These may be :

• A mechanical disturbance in the cervical spine.
• Pressure on the median nerve as it passes in front of the wrist between the tunnel formed by the small bones of the wrist called carpal bones.
• Arthritis of the wrist joint.
• Post-traumatic or following the union of fractured bones of the wrist and hand.

Often pain along with a tingling sensation and numbness in the fingers may radiate from the cervical spine. When the thumb is painful, the sixth cervical may be involved. When the middle and index fingers are painful, this may be due to the involvement of the seventh cervical nerve. When the little finger is painful, this may be due to the eighth cervical nerve.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
The median nerve passes anteriorly in the wrist through the tunnel formed by the small bones of the wrist. It provides nerve supply to three and a half fingers of the hand (thumb, index finger, middle finger and half of the ring finger). When this nerve is compressed while passing through the tunnel – numbness, a tingling sensation, and pain are caused in these fingers. This condition is most common in women of middle age. In the early stages, it occurs for short periods but may become continuous later. It is more severe at night and patients may wake up due to a distressing tingling in the hand, and may have to work the fingers and shake the hand to get relief. There is clumsiness in carrying out finger movements. Sewing and stitching become difficult. If the condition persists for a long time, weakness and a wasting of the small muscles of the hand which are supplied by the median nerve occurs.

A young woman had an acute pain in the neck, which subsided in course of time, but tingling, numbness and pain persisted in the thumb. Anti-inflammatory drugs decreased the pain and other symptoms. Fifteen days later she returned with the same numbness, tingling and pain in the first three and a half fingers. She also complained of pain over the wrist on exertion of pressure. She was injected with cortisone in the carpal tunnel, and felt a lot better for three weeks. Then the pain reappeared.

She came to me with the above history. I manipulated her cervical spine, articulated and mobilised her wrist and hand, and strapped her wrist to provide partial immobilisation. She felt considerable relief. This treatment was repeated once more after one week and she was completely cured after the third treatment, never again complaining of the same problem.

In my practice, I have treated quite a few cases of pain that has persisted for 5-10 years with apparent wasting of the small muscles of the hand. Inn such cases treatment was continued for 2-3 months. The results were encouraging: there was a persistent improvement in pain and decrease in muscle wasting. Arthritis and post-fracture pain in the wrist, and numbness in the fingers responded well to articulatory and manipulative treatment of the hand, followed by strapping.

Diagnosis
To differentiate between a cervical disc lesion and pressure on the median nerve in the carpal tunnel is sometimes difficult. The history of the course of the disease is informative. Carpal tunnel pain increases with the use of the hand. The pain is located at the anterior aspect of the first three and a half fingers; there is no numbness above the wrist, though it might ache.

In a cervical disc lesion, the patient feels pins and needles come and go day or night in an erratic manner, lasting not more than half an hour to one hour at a time. If the arm is elevated and held in that position for 2-3 minutes, numbness and tingling occur in 20-30 seconds. In a few cases where diagnosis is not easy, improvement following manipulation helps to make a correct diagnosis.

Wasting and weakness of the hand muscles do not usually occur in cases which are detected early. In quite a few cases where surgery is performed, the cause of the compression on the nerve is not always known, the nerve and other structures appearing to be normal.

Treatment
Articulation of the wrist and hand followed by strapping gives encouraging results. In case of a cervical involvement, the cervical spine should be manipulated. Contraindication. Manipulation of the hand and wrist are not done in cases of rheumatoid arthritis.

A cold work environment is not good for the hands or the wrists. The cold creates stiff joints and poor circulation making it difficult to use fingers to type or use the computer. Get your blood flowing properly to help keep you warm while using the computer. To create the perfect warm hand environment at work use a Mouse Hand Warmer blanket pouch with the ValueRays Warm Mouse and ValueRays Warm Mouse Pad.

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Each of the ValueRays® products serve a purpose when used separately. When used together, they create a very warm environment for a person who has cold hands when using the computer. ValueRays® heated mouse, warm mouse pad, warm keyboard pad and mouse hand warmer blanket can be purchased separately or in a variety of 2, 3 and 4 piece sets.

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Exercises to Keep Your Mouse From Biting You
By Jonathan Huie
If you use your computer a lot and you are of that certain age, you recognize when your mouse is beginning to bite you. It may be your mouse hand cramping, your lower or upper arm muscles, your shoulder, or perhaps the opposite shoulder knotting in sympathy. Don't wait until you are suffering, try these hints to avoid "mouse shoulder" and its cousins.

1. Take a break every hour, if only for a minute. Many short breaks are more effective than a single longer one.

2. Stretch your arm tendons. Extend your arms straight out to your sides, forming a cross with your body and arms. Start with your palms facing the floor. Pull your hands up and back, tightening your arm tendons. Repeat 10 times slowly. Now, pull your hands up and back, and twist your arms clockwise and counter clockwise - remain in the cross position while twisting your arms like wringing out a wet towel. Do NOT do anything that hurts - even a little.

3. Perform the same towel-wringing motion with your arms extended overhead, then in front, finally extended straight down.

4. Take a short walk. Exaggerate swinging your arms as you walk.

5. Get two light weights - perhaps five pounds each. Raise the weights with your arms extended to your sides, then with your arms extended to the front. Raise the weights over your head. Finally, lower the weights behind your shoulders and raise them back to overhead.

Even if you only take a minute's break, and even if you only do the first of these exercises, do it every hour.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie is an author of self-awareness books. He has been dubbed "The Philosopher of Happiness" by those closest to him, in recognition of his on-going commitment to seeing Joy in all of life.

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Using Your USB Port to Heat or Cool Yourself while Working at Your Computer
by Susan300 from Associated Content

With new computers rolling off the assembly line with 6 or 8 USB ports standard these days, (and some with as many as a dozen!), you must be wondering what to fill up all those ports with, right? Wonder no longer. Now you can offset the high energy cost associated with heating and cooling your workspace by using these nifty USB-powered gadget to heat or cool yourself.

Everything on this list is completely powered by plugging into a USB port...

USB Heat Slippers Dual ~
Finally! A way to keep my toes worm while they're dangling under my computer desk. These dual heat slippers by Thanko are even individually powered, just in case one foot is naturally warmer than the other. (Haven't we all had that happen!)

The USB Heat Slippers Dual works with both Windows-based machines and MACs, and even has an optional adapter to turn a regular house hold outlet into a USB port, in case you really have used up all those extra ports on your computer.

The slippers are washable, and the heating insert can even be removed and placed into a regular pair of shoes. Very handy for the office. Use your slippers in 'stealth mode' so that your co-workers don't get jealous.

Each USB powered slipper can reach a temperature of up to 50 degrees. Stave off the creeping winter chill with a pair of these ingenious foot warmers. Just don't forget that your feet are attached to your computer when you get up and start to walk away.

USB-powered Seat Warmers ~
Because sometimes it's not your feet that are cold. Put this warming pad onto your chair seat turn up the heat to your butt! Varying temperature control allows you to customize the heat on your seat.

USB-powered Seat Cooler ~
Of course, sometimes your butt is already too hot, right? For those moments, you'll enjoy this companion product, the USB-powered seat cooler! This slim and comfortable seat cushion adds a bit more padding underneath, while funneling cool air right where you need it most.

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3D connexion SpacePilot 3D Mouse from bhphotovideo.com
priced under $400.00

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Global Geo Supplies Acquires SoftMouse® Product Line from Immersion Corporation

Global Geo Supplies, Littleton, Colorado announced its recent acquisition of the SoftMouse® product line from Immersion Corporation (NASDAQ:IMMR). The acquisition positions Global Geo Supplies as the largest volume provider of 3D computer mouse products worldwide.

The SoftMouse® 3D computer input devices are principally used to create three dimensional computer models based on two dimensional imagery taken via satellite, aerial camera, and radar.

CFO Services, LLC, Denver, Colorado (CFOServicesNow.com), owned and managed by Kira Riedel, is providing pre- and post-transaction advisory services to Global GEO Supplies.

Guillermo Gallo, Co-Owner of Global GEO Supplies comments regarding the acquisition, "We believe that market demand for this product will increase hand in hand with the demand of vector mapping products generated by the GIS (Geographic Information Systems), street/car navigation, and web mapping industries. Such vector products are mainly produced by human operators in stereoscopic workstations, of which a 3D control device like the SoftMouse is a required component. Global Geo Supplies is excited to continue the technical development of the 3D mouse and related products to provide the market with the highest quality products possible. We are confident that our customers will continue to find new applications for these products and we want to innovate with them.”

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Bringing technology into the classroom
from Daily Heral Tribune

All hands are raised in Fraser Sewall’s math class. Kids clamour to answer the problem – 40 minus 10. A student is picked and the remaining 15 students collectively sigh. She touches the screen and counts back 10 squares.

Problem solved. The correct answer receives a cheer from the class. Next question and the hands are up once again. “Everyone is willing to volunteer, that’s for sure,” said Sewall. “You don’t have someone in the back who doesn’t want to try.”

Today the Grade 2 students at Clairmont Community school are learning to subtract by 10. For Sewall, using a Smartboard, or an interactive whiteboard, makes his lessons engaging and exciting. “Anything that draws their attention is positive,” said Sewall. “If you look at what kids are doing, so much of it is on a big screen TV at home. They seem to be able to relate to it.”

A Smartboard is simply an electronic touch-controlled whiteboard hooked up to a projector and computer. The projector puts the computer’s desktop image onto the whiteboard and acts as a monitor. Users can write on the whiteboard with a special marker, or use a finger to control computer applications by pointing, clicking and dragging, much like a computer mouse. The price tag of a Smartboard ranges from $4,500 to $5,000, including installation.

“As a teacher, it brings in a lot more possibilities in the classroom, being able to access the Internet as well as all the resources it comes with,” said Sewall. Alberta Education wants to ensure all classrooms in the province are equipped with technologies that promote innovative teaching and learning. The Innovative Classroom Technology – a three-year initiative – puts $18.5 million per year into the school jurisdictions.

When Clairmont Community school opened in January, all the classrooms in the K-6 school were equipped with a Smartboard and a projector. “Everybody is engaged,” said Sewall. “The students that may otherwise not be paying attention seem to be drawn into it.” Carrie Sutton, a Grade 6 teacher at St. Patrick Catholic school, can’t quite put her finger on it.

In all her 12 years of teaching, engaging students has never been an issue. Her quiet, authoritative approach to teaching commands her classroom. Since adding a Smartboard to her room, her passion for the profession has increased and her students are more captivated. “I am a little bit more alive,” said Sutton. “I am kind of a quiet. The kids are more excited about it (and) so am I.”

Sutton said the large screen with options for video, pictures and audio draws her students in time after time. “It has allowed me to bring in a lot of visual and digital media into my lectures and my teaching,” said Sutton. “You know how pictures are worth a thousand words.” And if students are drawn in, that means better understanding. “I have three science units that are now Smartboard-ready,” she said. “I have two that aren’t. I am finding, overall, their final test marks on the final exams for the Smartboard lessons are 20 per cent higher, which is huge.”

Sutton was intrigued with Smartboards after taking an introductory session at last year’s Mighty Peace Teachers’ Convention. Her classroom is the only one in St. Patrick which has a Smartboard installed. “I was excited,” she laughed. “I really wanted one in my room. I have always been keen about technology. I don’t know what I would do if I had to let it go.” Like her students, Sutton is mesmerized by the bells and whistles the board offers. Even when she is not giving a lesson, she will use the screen to show the time or a map of the world.

“Students are used to colours and pictures and video,” she said. “Being able to bring all of those things into your lessons just makes them come alive.” There is a downside to all this new technology. Her workload hasn’t decreased one bit. “I am spending more time because I am looking for images, for video and for interactive things,” she said. “Then once you have developed it, it’s there until they change the curriculum.” Chris Ruhl has used a Smartboard for two years in his Grade 4 classes at Alexander Forbes school.

"As a profession, we’re trying to get away from doing the pen and paper,” he explained. “Everything is more inquiry based.”Ruhl uses the Smartboard for most of his lessons. He said every subject from music to science could be used on the interactive whiteboard.

“In kindergarten, teachers can use it for counting and manipulating shapes,” he said. “You can put up a piece of text on the board and there’s a highlighting feature to show the kids for comprehension.” Ruhl said the possibilities are endless as Smartboards gain steam across the province and more and more teachers post ideas and suggestions to online forums and webpages. “It makes the lessons a lot more interactive with the students,” said Ruhl. “They are excited to get the chance to come up and do things on the Smartboard. They are not just sitting and looking at things on an overhead or something written on the board.”

Ruhl is the Smartboard guru at Alexander Forbes. He has helped his colleagues find a comfort zone from which to utilize the board. “Some teachers were hesitant who had never used a Smartboard,” said Ruhl. “We have a Tech Star Award where somebody does something and we highlight it to the rest of the staff.” There is a problem of falling into the trap of using the interactive whiteboard as a glorified overhead. But Ruhl says the technology is needed in the classroom. In my opinion, this is a video-game culture,” said Ruhl, 34, “Kids’ brains are tuned to watching the bright colours, seeing the movement and it is a way of introducing a teaching method in a way they are familiar with.”

Sutton agreed and said today’s students need to be more tech savvy. And this should start in the classroom. “Right now my kids are preparing Powerpoint presentations on issues they care about in the community and in the world,” she said. “I am hoping they are learning to be presenters and be excited about using technology. If you see something all through school, when you get out to your job you won’t be scared.”

Cold mouse hands are warm using infrared heat by ValueRays®

It's not surprising to learn the value of infrared heating has finally found the computer industry. Or, should we state, ValueRays® found infrared heat for the USA computer industry? For centuries the healing effects of infrared heat has been througout the world. Now, with the USA based USB infrared heat company, ValueRays®, USA computer users with cold hands can enjoy the soothing effects of infrared heat while using the computer.

IGMproducts.com announced today the addition of ValueRays® infrared heat computer accessories to their website. The ValueRays® infrared heated ergonomic computer accessories make the perfect ergonomic workstation for people suffering with poor circulation and cold handes. This includes people with arthritis, Raynaud's, diabetes, carpal tunnel syndrome, and a host of other hand conditions with cold hands symptoms.

ValueRays® ergonomic computer accessories provide infrared heat therapy using infrared heaters in the comfort of your home or office. If your hand pain diagnosis results in cold computer hands and numb cold fingers, cost-effective and energy-efficient infrared heat therapy using your computer provides warmth and relief.

IGMproducts.com has infrared heated computer accessories to help those who suffer with arthritis hand pain to use the computer with improved comfort and relief.

"Infrared heat is a deep penetrating source of heat therapy for computer users who have arthritis in their hands," said Anna Miller, IGMproducts.com owner. "I have arthritis in my hands, and only 20-30 minutes of infrared heat therapy daily makes a big difference in reduced hand pain and increased amount of time I can use the computer."

Infrared heat can make a difference for computer users with hand pain associated with arthritis and other conditions like carpal tunnel syndrome, Raynaud's Phenomenon, diabetes and poor circulation. The relaxing heat helps get blood circulating to the affected areas.

Not everyone has poor circulation or cold hand pain when using the computer, but for people who do, IGMproducts.com provides a high-quality, low-priced infrared heated mouse, heated mouse pad, heated keyboard pad and mouse hand warmer blanket.

IGMproducts.com is the premiere online store for ValueRays® USB Infrared Heat Ergonomic Computer Accessories. The ValueRays® brand includes the following USB items:

ValueRays® Warm Mouse
ValueRays® Warm Mouse Pad
ValueRays® Warm Keyboard Pad
ValueRays® Mouse Hand Warmer®

If you or someone you know suffer from hand pain when using the computer, infrared heat computer accessories are an ideal source of soothing heat to relax sore muscles, relieve tension and stress, and provide a deep penetrating source of heat to aching hands, fingers, wrists and arms.

Using USB heat is cost-effective and energy-efficient. The computer supplies therapeutic heat energy for the mouse hand and keyboard hands. The ValueRays® USB plug & play products require no additional software to install. Just place the USB connector in an USB port to start a home-based heat therapy treatment while you are using the computer. Within a few minutes warmth is delivered to the surface of the mouse pad and to the computer mouse. Use the two heated items inside the Mouse Hand Warmer® blanket pouch and insulated infrared heat creates the perfect mouse hand environment.

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April is Occupational Therapy Month. If you know someone recovering from a hand injury, suggest infrared heat ergonomic work aids to assist the rehabilitation process. See the IGMproducts.com ValueRays® advertisement in April's Conference issue of OT Practice Magazine.

If you have severe hand pain symptoms, severe cold computer hands and numb cold fingers, please consult a doctor to discuss cold hand causes for a proper hand pain diagnosis. Do not rely solely on Internet research to define the causes of cold hands and hand pain.

For more information about ValueRays® USB Infrared Heat Ergonomic Computer Accessories, please visit http://igmproducts.com/

For additional online resources, visit authorized ValueRays® dealers at http://warm-mouse-heated-keyboard.com/.

Just In Time - AOTA Annual Conference: ValueRays® Warm Mouse Photo Gallery

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April is Occupational Therapy Month! And, just in time for the AOTA's Annual Conference in Houston, we are posting a photo gallery of the new ValueRays® Warm Mouse designed with a carbon fiber heating element to help people with cold hands use the computer with greater ease. The ValueRays® Warm Mouse is great for people with athritis, carpal tunnel syndrome and poor circulation.

If you have cold hands or know someone who has cold hands, visit IGMproducts.com to see all the USB Infrared Heat Ergonomic Computer Workstation items available to help people with cold hands use the computer.

The ValueRays® Warm Mouse comes prepackaged in a colorful red box with instructions. Here's more details about the heated mouse pictured on this page. It has a Carbon fibre heating element, Warms the hand with a comfortable 99-104 degrees Farhenheit temperature, Uses a low voltage (5V) and is safe for people and the computer, On/Off Switch conveniently located on the USB cord, Turn Heated Warm Mouse off when not in use, 800 DPI scrolling Heated Warm Mouse, Optical Heated Warm Mouse, Requires no drivers or software, Easy plug & play installation.

ValueRays® Warm Mouse comes pre-packaged in a colorful red box ready for gift-giving. Wondering what to get the geek in your house for a gift this year? Computer users sitting still working at the computer get cold from lack of exercise. A ValueRays® Warm Mouse will help keep your inactive geek warm!



The ValueRays® Warm Mouse is an optical mouse with FCC Standards for home or office use. It's safe for people and the computer.

A handy On/Off Switch is located on the USB cord of the ValueRays® Warm Mouse.

800 DPI scrolling wheel is located on the ValueRays® Warm Mouse.

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ValueRays® USB Warm Mouse is an ergonomic USB infrared heated computer mouse designed using a carbon fiber infrared heating element to generate deep healing infrared heat to relax the hand muscles, soothe painful joints, reduce stress and tension of the hand, reduce hand pain and numbness, and create a warm mouse hand. A warm mouse review and reasons to use a warm computer mouse are available in the Learning Center.

Warm Messages Received on this Cool Mouse

Want to send your office-mate a warm message? Try it using this cool mouse with a built in fan. Fan mouse technology keeps the warm mouse hand cool and dry. It operates using a small built in fan with light air through tiny holes on the mouse casing.

If you don't need a cooling mouse, but have cold mouse hand problems, see the warming mouse with built in infrared heaters. It delivers soothing deep penetrating infrared heat to your aching mouse hand muscles. Availalble online.

Many of these unusual mice are difficult to find in the USA. Shopping online is the best source for these innovative products. For more information, visit the Warm Mouse Heated Keyboard website. Or see the list of merchants on the right side bar.......>

Here's what others are saying about this very cool mouse....

The LED Message Mouse with fan
from Coolest Gadgets
Mice being created with fans are nothing new. They’re nice to keep your hand cool when your office gets a little too warm. After all, computers can produce a bit of heat and the more that are running in one room, the warmer it’s going to get. However, leave it to Japan to take it about three steps further. You have to love their flare for taking an average product and giving it an LED twist.

Each mouse has LED lights on the inside and you can program the mouse to display a personalized message. If you’re wanting to change that message while you’re away from the computer, it even has a handy little remote control. Of course, you’ll have to keep your messages a little short, the max amount of characters is 12. These are being retailed in Japan for about $21 and might be a bit difficult to get a hold of outside of Japan.

Optical Mouse flaunts fans, remote and LEDs for a difference
from gizmowatch.com
Gadgets with added facilities are most embraced, but often the process to deliver better and unique, gadgets are stuffed with all sorts of useless facilities. Which side of utility would this USB mouse with integrated LEDs and fan to cool your palm fall, may be stiff to decide, but being the only mouse flaunting its own remote, this definitely has a better stance in utility. The mouse offers standard 800pdi optical tracking, but to its novelty, with the remote to input messages of up to 12 characters it enjoys the basic diversity of sorts. If you are one of those busy souls who spend hours at the PC, the best feature of the mouse that you’ll cherish would be the fans over the LEDs that’ll keep blowing out air to keep your busy hand sweat-free, all for about $21 in Japan.

We’re not entirely certain quite who this particular mouse will appeal to, but we suspect it may appeal to someone, somewhere for some reason but, for us at least, the idea of integrating an animated LED display and palm cooling strikes us as just a little OTT.

LED Message Display USB Mouse with Integrated Hand Cooling & Remote
from nexus404
Known as the LED Message Mouse (very inventive) the device is, as you’d expect, a wholly rudimentary device in offering a bog standard 800pdi optical tracking but, to its credit (or not) it’s the first mouse we’ve come across to date that comes bundled with its own remote - which is used to input your message (up to 12 characters). Having input your message, you can then sit back and watch as it’s animated before you whilst rotating, fading in and out and, well, you get the picture.

On and above the integrated LED display, you can also factor in the mouse’s comfort fans that blow air through a series of holes framing the circular LED display window, thus ensuring that your palm stays sweat free as you hold the mouse in an attempt to cover the bright animated display on account of it giving you a migraine. Very thoughtful.

The supremely tacky LED Message Mouse retails in Japan for the equivalent of around $21.

The LED Message Mouse with fan
from TikTech.com
Mice being created with fans are nothing new. They’re nice to keep your hand cool when your office gets a little too warm. After all, computers can produce a bit of heat and the more that are running in one room, the warmer it’s going to get. However, leave it to Japan to take it about three steps further. You have to love their flare for taking an average product and giving it an LED twist.

Each mouse has LED lights on the inside and you can program the mouse to display a personalized message. If you’re wanting to change that message while you’re away from the computer, it even has a handy little remote control. Of course, you’ll have to keep your messages a little short, the max amount of characters is 12. These are being retailed in Japan for about $21 and might be a bit difficult to get a hold of outside of Japan.

Infrared heat therapy using a warm mouse, heated mouse pad and other USB infared heated computer gadgets!

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The experts in delivering USB Heat -- for people who have cold hands when using the computer.

There are a number of medical conditions responding well to the therapeutic approach of using infrared heat as a source of healing and soothing comfort for arthritis, Raynaud's and poor circulatory conditions causing cold hands and a cold mouse hand when using a computer. We gathered some helpful home therapy ideas for today's Warm Mouse blog post.

First, carpal tunnel syndrome has been around for a long time and sorry to admit, it's here to stay. Every family probably has one person with the condition caused from repetitive work or using the computer. The article below with the video illustrates some simple hand stretches to help relieve the pain associated with carpal tunnel.

Second, cold hands and cold extremities associated with Raynaud's disease are brought on from a drop in temperature when it gets cold outside and during a stressful event or mental tension. The second article posted below lists the different kinds of stress with its symptoms. Cold hands are a symptom of Acute Stress. Did you know that?

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Defeat Symptons of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome with Simple Hand Stretches - Video

Posted by Jack Devore

If you’re on the computer a lot (or play Rock Band till your fingers bleed), then you may often feel those dreaded hand-cramps that essentially make your appendages next to useless until they’ve rested awhile. An abundance of repetitive tasks can lead to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, which is no fun. Sometimes people wear strange braces on their hands or invest in odd-looking mouse-pads as a way to alleviate the pain. A better idea is to engage in simple hand stretches on a daily basis, an act that only takes 30-seconds. I’ve been trying the following techniques for about a week and I can honestly say it works wonders.

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The Different Kinds of Stress

By artdesignlover
bukisa.com

The Many Faces of Stress

Stress affects each individual differently, according to the cause and its effects. Therefore, there are different kinds of stress as recognized by clinical and research studies. It is important for an individual to recognize the cause of stress in order to know how to deal with it, and hopefully reduce stress levels. Moreover, each type of stress have different approaches to treatment.

Basically, there are three known types of stress: acute stress, episodic acute stress, and chronic stress. However, a fourth kind – psychological stress – is also becoming more prevalent and is considered as a legitimate type of stress.

Acute Stress

This is the most common form of stress, which results from the pressures one is subjected to in their everyday life. In small doses of acute stress, it can actually be beneficial to an individual. Think of athletes that are about to compete in an event. They experience acute stress, which triggers the production of adrenaline and giving them a burst of energy needed to perform their best.

The symptoms for this type of stress are easily recognizable and mostly affects a person only in a short term. Common symptoms include back or neck pain, muscular tensions, headache, rapid heartbeat, sweaty palms, cold hands or feet.

Episodic Acute Stress

As mentioned above, acute stress is quite common to most people. However, there are a few others who experience it more often than others. These people are the ones who are so focused on achieving organization and yet always fail when it comes to performance. Therefore, it is not surprising that they often become irritable, if not with themselves then their initial environment. This also explains why they find the workplace quite a stressful environment.

Other forms of episodic acute stress are those people who keep worrying. They have become so pessimistic about the environment that they always project something wrong would happen. Hence, they end up feeling awful, tense, or anxious without having clear reasons for feeling that way.

Chronic Stress

This is the type of stress that wears one out. Plus, it builds up over time and can produce long-term effects on a person, whether emotionally or physically. Most forms of chronic stress are caused by trauma that they find difficult to let go and so it continues to disrupt their everyday lives.

One problem with chronic stress is that people often believe that it is something that is innate to them and that they cannot get rid of. Thus, it makes treating this condition difficult because it is often ignored by the person affected by it. It can, however, be treated through stress management procedures and behavioral treatment.

Psychological Stress

Stress has its own set of complexity. With the different types stated above, psychological stress concerns more of a person's ability to respond to a given situation. To be specific, the loss of that ability. During dangerous situations, your body produces hormones known as adrenaline and cortisol that prompts the body to make a response.

Compare this to charging a battery that produces high voltage that must be discharged. In the case of a person suffering from psychological stress, the body fails to discharge that burst of energy that is produced. The continued raise in your heart rate and the production of adrenaline could result to fatal problems in your heart.

There are several reasons as to how one acquires psychological stress but it can include trauma suffered from an emotionally disturbing event in the past or other emotional anxiety. The problem with people suffering from psychological stress is that they tend to induce more stress in their lives by subjecting themselves to stressful situations. Today, several groups hold counseling to help those who suffer from this condition and regain control over their life.