My own experience with RSI pain is that it sets in fairly quickly (over a period of 6 months to 1 year) from the start with mild tingling over the right and left hands/forefingers to more full-blown pain. I had been working extensively doing Computer Aided Design work and producing large quantities of documentation. In the image below, the red areas indicate the main areas where I experienced most of my RSI pain.
The areas of pain included –
- Acute pain over right index and middle fingers
- Pain over backs of hands
- Acute pain right wrist
- Acute pain over outer edge of right thumb
- Right upper forearm extensor pain
- Finger joint pain when typing
- Similar story with left arm (less intense, but I am right handed)
Each separate area of pain could be attributable to a certain cause, and sometimes one symptom would