Wrist Roller Grip Strength Hand Gripper Forearm Strength Stainless Steel Deluxe

see keyboard review threads:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185743

http://developerlife.com/reviews/?p=46

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221434

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=199493

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=104977

That's about 3 days' reading material: some bullets as i dimly remember:

1. laptop keyboards: avoid, especially for emacs/textmate control/alt/command key combo's. These 2-key to 4-key combo's are hell on your wrists if you always have to do them on the left side. If you do COntrol_C and X and V to cut/past in windows, same deal. I think it helps to use both short-travel scissors mechanism keyboards, like the new aluminum mac KB's and older-style long-travel sprung keyboards taht logitech , Matias and kensington make. I especially like the Matias' feel.

2. hourly breaks and wrist exercises: wrist curls, reverse wrist curls, the Dyno-flex ball , powerWeb exercises. The latter is expanding your semi-closed fingers out against resistance, which is one that I rarely read about, but it's important.

http://www.fitter1.com/Catalog/Category/35/HandWrist.aspx http://www.amazon.com/Roller-Strength-Gripper-Forearm-Stainl...

3. always have your elbows and heels of hand supported weight-wise when mousing and keyboarding (kinda like Formula 1 designers trying to minimize unsprung weight). Try to mouse with undominant hand (I'm not too good at this)

4. consider other factors: cocking your wrists when you drive or ride a bike or work power tools, shovel snow, brush your teeth, sleeping on your side. The combination of weight-bearing, pressure/shock/vibration and closing off the outside or inside of wrist joint is insidious .

5. Aside: i think JFred has enough material for a book. all my upmod points to him/her!