from tennis elbow to PDA pain

 
signs of the times: massage therapy for tired thumbs
Attention Masters of the Universe (and other Blackberry, Treo and similar PDA users): it can hurt to over-use your device, as you may already know. But if you stay at some Hyatt Hotels you can get a special massage for people who have thumb and hand pain from typing on those tiny keyboards, as a story carried by Reuters explains.
 
I have never had this problem typing emails on my Treo, but then I usually don’t want to type more than ten or fifteen lines in a Treo-email, let alone a short novel.
 
Here’s a helpful (?) tip from an ergonomics expert at Cornell University:
 
“Don’t type “War and Peace” with your thumbs! If you need to type long messages use an external keyboard for the device,”
 
(Almost makes me proud that our youngest will graduate from Cornell in May.)
 
© Sandy Mattingly 2006
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