Comments on: RSI – What to do? (Part 1 – RSI Initial Symptoms) http://www.ergomatters.co.uk/blog/rsi/rsi-what-to-do-part-1-rsi-initial-symptoms/ an RSI sufferer's thoughts and wisdom Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:37:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: alanf http://www.ergomatters.co.uk/blog/rsi/rsi-what-to-do-part-1-rsi-initial-symptoms/comment-page-1/#comment-6196 alanf Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:51:56 +0000 http://www.ergomatters.co.uk/blog/?p=13#comment-6196 Hi Carole, sorry to hear about your situation. It must be a common theme with a lot of us who suffer from RSI. GP's are useless. Physio's can vary a lot but can be useful. Ergonomists are good to consult and get advise from, but in the end of the day you have to do the research and come to your own conclusions on RSI. It is a matter education, but if not acted on quickly enough can be a rapid decline into bad pain on a daily basis. Alan Hi Carole,

sorry to hear about your situation. It must be a common theme with a lot of us who suffer from RSI. GP’s are useless. Physio’s can vary a lot but can be useful.
Ergonomists are good to consult and get advise from, but in the end of the day you have to do the research and come to your own conclusions on RSI. It is a
matter education, but if not acted on quickly enough can be a rapid decline into bad pain on a daily basis.

Alan

]]> By: Carole http://www.ergomatters.co.uk/blog/rsi/rsi-what-to-do-part-1-rsi-initial-symptoms/comment-page-1/#comment-6195 Carole Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:11:28 +0000 http://www.ergomatters.co.uk/blog/?p=13#comment-6195 I was so pleased to read the sympathetic tone of this article; it is so true that "the worker will not consult anyone about their symptoms eg an ergonomist, a company doctor, GP etc, and will more often than not want to avoid exposing their problem (however small) to their employer." In this recession & also being a remote worker/ having to spend 8 hrs a day on my pc creating/writing/uploading information/also being a lone-parent/ and being aged 50, I was too afraid to tell anyone at work about the pain in my computer hand/thumb & just tried to do everything- until my hand refused to do what I wanted, suddenly one evening.. I did go the GP in the preceding couple of years & complained about the ache in my arm but was dismissed with 'you haven't got RSI' as I could still stretch my arms out ok! Well, I do yoga & am pretty flexible, so of course I could stretch my arms out! All I got from the doc was anti-inflammatories, which I hated taking. However, on seeing a private physio (huge waiting list for NHS physio) I was immediately diagnosed with RSI of thumb/hand. It happened so suddenly- trying, despite the pain, to keep up with increasingly difficult deadlines/demands, from work, to not being able to go online/work at all. My employer has also lost out- I've been off sick for weeks now, having physio. But it's terrifying- to suddenly be warned that one may be considered 'disabled' after always being fit & healthy. And all through trying to please the boss. I was so pleased to read the sympathetic tone of this article; it is so true that “the worker will not consult anyone about their symptoms eg an ergonomist, a company doctor, GP etc, and will more often than not want to avoid exposing their problem (however small) to their employer.” In this recession & also being a remote worker/ having to spend 8 hrs a day on my pc creating/writing/uploading information/also being a lone-parent/ and being aged 50, I was too afraid to tell anyone at work about the pain in my computer hand/thumb & just tried to do everything- until my hand refused to do what I wanted, suddenly one evening..
I did go the GP in the preceding couple of years & complained about the ache in my arm but was dismissed with ‘you haven’t got RSI’ as I could still stretch my arms out ok! Well, I do yoga & am pretty flexible, so of course I could stretch my arms out! All I got from the doc was anti-inflammatories, which I hated taking.
However, on seeing a private physio (huge waiting list for NHS physio) I was immediately diagnosed with RSI of thumb/hand.
It happened so suddenly- trying, despite the pain, to keep up with increasingly difficult deadlines/demands, from work, to not being able to go online/work at all. My employer has also lost out- I’ve been off sick for weeks now, having physio. But it’s terrifying- to suddenly be warned that one may be considered ‘disabled’ after always being fit & healthy. And all through trying to please the boss.

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