First off, take lots of tiny breaks while you are working, and stretch out your wrists. That will help keep this from continuing or coming back. Try using outlook or some other program (or cell phone) that will chime every 30 minutes or so. Break and do a couple of stretches, go back to work.
This will totally suck, but..
Fill sink with cold water. Add two ice cube trays. Put arms in up to your elbows. Wait until numb. (It will hurt, you will cry, but it will help.) Then do the stretches below. If you can, get someone to rub their thumbs, firmly across the top of your arms, just before the elbow back and forth while you are still numb.
Get massage from someone who does it. Regular little ones - so you might want to look into finding a place that has chair massage near your work.
Check out http://ergocise.com/wrists.html they have pictures and movies for great break stretches. The stretches I recommend first are: "Break at the Wrist" and "Stop! (In the name of love)"
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Date: Fri, Jul. 20th, 2007 02:45 am (UTC)This will totally suck, but..
Fill sink with cold water. Add two ice cube trays. Put arms in up to your elbows. Wait until numb. (It will hurt, you will cry, but it will help.) Then do the stretches below. If you can, get someone to rub their thumbs, firmly across the top of your arms, just before the elbow back and forth while you are still numb.
Get massage from someone who does it. Regular little ones - so you might want to look into finding a place that has chair massage near your work.
Check out http://ergocise.com/wrists.html they have pictures and movies for great break stretches. The stretches I recommend first are: "Break at the Wrist" and "Stop! (In the name of love)"
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