At some point in your life as an avid Netizen who also actively play sports like tennis and golf, you will experience wrist pain. It may start out as nothing more than a twinge of discomfort that immediately goes away but then degenerates into an acute pain and/or numbness that will wake you up in the middle of the night.
Here is the part where you must consult your doctor for proper treatment of your wrist pain, which can range from the RICE protocol to surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome. Did you know, however, that you can avoid the psychological and physical pain, not to mention the financial strain, which wrist pain can bring with a simple pillow for the wrist?
What It Is
Simply put, a wrist pillow is any soft, molded material that acts as pillow for your wrist to rest on while you are maneuvering your computer mouse. It can be bought in online sites and offline stores offering computer accessories, often at very low prices and as an attachment to the common mouse pad. Well, of course, you will often be made to choose between three boring colors - black, blue and gray - although you may have it personalized with your company logo.
Other ways to get this kind of wrist support can be had around the house; rolling up a towel and putting it under your wrists at the keyboard can work, or you can find online videos that will walk you through the steps of a more elaborate craft project; stuffing them can be done with old socks, discarded bits of yarn or other soft pliant materials. Doing it yourself also lets you make it as colorful as you like.
What It Can Do for You
As inexpensive, easy to purchase/easy to make, and innocuous as a wrist support in the form of a small pillow is, you will enjoy many benefits from it. For one thing, your wrist will be protected from the repetitive stress injury brought by hours of pecking and clicking away on your computer. Since your wrist rests on soft gel, or other soft materials like cotton, it is angled in such a way as to minimize stress. In fact, a properly-made wrist pillow can relieve tension in this most important of body parts.
For another thing, its non-skid base can help in your computing. Just imagine how slower your work will be when you constantly seem to be playing a game of slip-and-slide with your mouse. And it may even help in improving your typing posture!
Above and beyond the benefits to your typing and mousing, wrist pillows will also help in warding off medical conditions like carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis. They can also help reduce the pain from arthritis, tendonitis and sprains. If you make your living typing at a keyboard, pain is a direct cost to you, in lost productivity and other factors, and is definitely something to be avoided.
Even more than the pain to your wrists, physical therapy is also expensive, and time consuming - it's a real pain in the wallet to get wrist pain fixed when it's gone too far - and that's the best reason to get a wrist pillow.
Here is the part where you must consult your doctor for proper treatment of your wrist pain, which can range from the RICE protocol to surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome. Did you know, however, that you can avoid the psychological and physical pain, not to mention the financial strain, which wrist pain can bring with a simple pillow for the wrist?
What It Is
Simply put, a wrist pillow is any soft, molded material that acts as pillow for your wrist to rest on while you are maneuvering your computer mouse. It can be bought in online sites and offline stores offering computer accessories, often at very low prices and as an attachment to the common mouse pad. Well, of course, you will often be made to choose between three boring colors - black, blue and gray - although you may have it personalized with your company logo.
Other ways to get this kind of wrist support can be had around the house; rolling up a towel and putting it under your wrists at the keyboard can work, or you can find online videos that will walk you through the steps of a more elaborate craft project; stuffing them can be done with old socks, discarded bits of yarn or other soft pliant materials. Doing it yourself also lets you make it as colorful as you like.
What It Can Do for You
As inexpensive, easy to purchase/easy to make, and innocuous as a wrist support in the form of a small pillow is, you will enjoy many benefits from it. For one thing, your wrist will be protected from the repetitive stress injury brought by hours of pecking and clicking away on your computer. Since your wrist rests on soft gel, or other soft materials like cotton, it is angled in such a way as to minimize stress. In fact, a properly-made wrist pillow can relieve tension in this most important of body parts.
For another thing, its non-skid base can help in your computing. Just imagine how slower your work will be when you constantly seem to be playing a game of slip-and-slide with your mouse. And it may even help in improving your typing posture!
Above and beyond the benefits to your typing and mousing, wrist pillows will also help in warding off medical conditions like carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis. They can also help reduce the pain from arthritis, tendonitis and sprains. If you make your living typing at a keyboard, pain is a direct cost to you, in lost productivity and other factors, and is definitely something to be avoided.
Even more than the pain to your wrists, physical therapy is also expensive, and time consuming - it's a real pain in the wallet to get wrist pain fixed when it's gone too far - and that's the best reason to get a wrist pillow.
About the Author:
Tom Nicholson spends his time helping sufferers of carpal tunnel syndrome. You can click here to learn more about having asore wrist.
