Do your hands hurt when your write?
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Ages ago when I first started writing, the typewriters were these huge manual machines, Underwoods or whichever. At the newspaper where I worked we'd pound out our articles or interviews or whatever, clack clack clack and the fatigue was real. Soon as I got to electric typewriters I was a lot happier, happier still when word processors and computers came into use.
Lots of writing strain comes from the angle at which your hands are placed on the keyboard (those who still use manuscript had better get onboard w. the 21st century, maybe even the 20th? ha ha). But often, hand and forearm strain are due to the "angle of the dangle" and whether your forearms are level with your palms (which is ideal). And of course you must touch-type and not use the two-finger panic mode.
Those of you who need glasses to read and see the screen, a very good hint: If you use, say, bifocals, you may be inducing fatigue by having to tilt your head back to see the screen through the lower portion of your glasses. This disrupts your entire body posture.
What I highly recommend for those who need bifocals for reading, get specially made trifocals that are designed especially for computer screen use. How they do this is that there's a narrow band (11mm) just above the bifocal lower section of the lens. This is the same exact visual formula as the bifocal section but it's got a longer focal length.
That way, when you read a book or page in your lap or hands, your eyes and head tilt slightly down to focus on the printed page at standard reading length from your eyes. But when you glance up to the computer screen, your eyes shift and you view through the narrow 11mm band of the trifocal. It's exactly the right focal depth for looking at a screen -- further away than a printed page.
After a couple days it becomes automatic. And this is a true delight compared with the task of having to tilt your head back to look at a screen or raise the glasses awkwardly on your nose.
Be sure to specify to the optician that you want trifocals that are specifically designed for looking at a computer screen. All major opticians know how to do this, and the cost is very low, only slightly more than bifocals.
You'll never "look back" -- ha ha.
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Most desks are designed for the height of about 32 inches which is fine for resting your elbows on and reading. But what's really needed is that the keyboard be lower. My little computer desk has a rollout shelf that's under the main table surface, and the keyboard goes on that. This is the ideal height for most folks. Of course taller or shorter people also need adjustments.
But generally, your forearms should be close to level, horizontal, and the rear portion of your palms resting comfortably, so that the fingers aren't arched too much. I've occasionally used one of those wrist pads --- all computer stores have 'em -- and they help a lot.
Nowadays I mostly sit in my recliner and use my laptop computer as a "real" laptop -- it sits on a little flat plastic padded thingie and I sit, feet up, and comfy, zero strain on my arms and fingers.
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Rowan wrote:My hands hurt when I write in English, but not in Russian. I have Multiple Sclerosis so both are painful. I need a good voice program so I can speak stories and chapters into my computer for when I am not feeling well. Help would be good
I would have thought this was a bit weird, but that'd mean I'm weird too. My hands hurt when I'm copying something I've written before and when I'm writing school notes. But they never hurt when I'm writing a fresh story or a fresh scene. Maybe it's all about mindset; I have no idea. But I'm grateful they don't hurt when I'm writing fresh stuff.
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