Elbow pain ivanhoe eaglemont fairfield heidelberg

Elbow Pain due to Computer use

 

Is sitting at your desk all day making your elbows sore? While using your mouse isn’t an extreme sport, over time it can cause the muscles in your forearm to be overused and unhappy. Repetitive strain injuries (RSI’s) aren’t just for the super active and weight lifting folk. Repetitive, overuse of the wrist can lead to tendon pain in the forearm muscles that run from the wrist to the elbow. How can we avoid desk related elbow pain? 

 

  • Mouse pads with gel supports can be helpful
  • Check your keyboard and mouse position 
  • Strengthen your muscles. We aren’t made to sit down all day holding a tiny electrical mouse.  It is important that you are strengthening your upper body away from work to help create stronger muscles that can take the repetitive load. Example –  Try holding some little 1-2kg weights and doing some wrist movements or squeeze a tennis ball 30 times. 

 

For the rundown on elbow pain see our elbow pain blog here and for all your workstation ergonomic information see here

Similar Posts

  • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

    Sick of that numbness and tingling in your hands with repetitive activities? It might be Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Here is what you can do.     Carpel tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a painful common condition of the hand where there is pressure on the median nerve as it runs within the carpel tunnel of the…

  • Lumbar Disc Injury

    Slipped disc? Bulging Disc? What you need to know.   Following on from our Acute Lower Back Pain blog a few weeks ago (have a read of that here), we are going to discuss spinal disc injuries. We will go a little deeper into the dreaded ‘bulging disc’ and how it can be managed. As…

  • Endometriosis and the role of Osteopathy

    Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition where tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus. This tissue can affect the ovaries, bladder, bowel, pelvic ligaments, and other areas within the pelvis. Endometriosis affects approximately 1 in 9 Australian women and can present very differently from person to person. Unfortunately, many women…