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Comment on RSI and gaming by Honsou

Honsou — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:41:01 +0000

RSI in your hands is kinda permanent. You can treat it and it will go away, but will always flare up every now and then, and your hands are much more frail from continuous gaming. My RSI is no longer painful, but I get the start of the fatigue after around 3 hours of gaming. Something that requires me to click alot (Minecraft for example) will lower that time to around 30 minutes. If I carry on, it becomes painful. If I had treated it sooner I would more time to game before it starts to get painful.

Pain in your wrists might be Carpal Tunnel. If your just getting signs of it now then its treatable and will go away. Some prevention techniques will stop it from coming back. Having a minute rest or more every 15 or 20 minutes will help too.

Before a long gaming session, you should stretch your hands and wrists. shake your wrists around, pull back with your fingers, stretch your arms out to your side with your palms facing away from you, and stretch your wrists towards your head and then the other way towards your body. Its not easy to explain in writing, but you can find alot of carpal tunnel techniques online.

Remember, your hands need to warm up before gaming just like an athlete. Giving them a good stretch for 2 minutes before gaming will go along way to treating and preventing RSI and Carpal Tunnel.

Hope this helps. Most important thing is to not stop gaming

Comment on RSI and gaming by Rich W

Rich W — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:51:09 +0000

hi mate, I am new to gaming and have hot hooked on online Call of duty Modern warfare 2… I have racked up 14 days gameplay in about 3-4 months sometimes have 6 hour or longer sessions and then more later that day.

Yesterday and today I started to get pain in my wrists?

Is RSI permanent and is that it am I doomed to always have RSI?

Thanks mate

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Comment on Metro 2033 trailer by Jackson Hill

Jackson Hill — Sun, 09 May 2010 10:11:47 +0000

The first time that i tried overcloking over a year ago, my CPU got overheated and got fried.~`~

Comment on RSI and gaming by learndrums

learndrums — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:01:18 +0000

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