The main drawback of spending eight hours a day typing is the increasing finger and hands pain.
This is a real problem.

Cracking the joints is counterproductive – in the long run, it can have very bad consequences.

So, apart from firing up WorkRave and timing my daily routine to minimize traumas, I’m currently going through my old massage handbooks to find a few quick and easy solutions.
Granted, arthritis cannot be solved by simple massages, but at least a symptomatic solution can be found.
This is not my first post on the subject, but I think the matter can be of interest to writers and intensive keyboard users out there.
So, here goes.

Fingers stretching – this is basically just the act of opening the hands and stretchingthe fingers, slowly, so that the fingers arch a little backwards.

Wrist rotations – once again, nothing complicated. Holding the wrist with the other hand, I simply rotate the wrist and the hand slowly.

Finger wiggling – just that, moving thefingers freely, and without any pressure applied to them.

A series of hand massaging tutorials can be found online.
The most basic routine goes more or less like this

Keep your wrists limp and shake your hands to loosen them up.

Using the thumb, press gently on the palm of your hand, and move slowly from the heel ofthe hand tothe tip of each finger.

Repeat working on the back of the hand in the same way.

The mix of WorkRave-scheduled micro-breaks and occasional massages is working.
Next step – finding me a new keyboard.

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