Prevent CTS
Posted By: C-C on 2008-07-30
In Reply to: any transcriptionists been disabled by - CTS? see inside
I am not sure if CTS is something you can get disability for, its certainly worth a try if you have disability insurance via your employer. To prevent CTS however I recommend that you get a chair and keyboard tray that combine to put your elbows at right angles, you need to make sure that your wrists make a straight line (you want minial wrist flexion, and no ulnar or radial flexion). I have found that a split keyboard (MS Natural old style is my favorite). There are more expensive ones, but this is what I use and my pain has been gone.
On another note, a lumbar pillow has made vast differences for my back.
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WARNING to those trying to PREVENT it.....
A few years ago my daughter's 2nd grade class kept having a lice problem. My daughter never showed any signs of it BUT one day she came home and told me her 2 best friends, who she played with and sat by, were sent home with it. So I panicked and did the stuff in her hair just to get anything that (in my mind) was probably there.
Well, my daughter had a neurologic reaction to the RID or whatever I used. Her one arm was shaking, it was scary. I took her to the ED and the doc made me feel about 1 inch tall. He said "WHY WOULD YOU PUT IT ON HER IF SHE DIDN'T HAVE LICE???"
I explained but he said people just don't get it, this stuff is basically a PESTICIDE.
So if your child has it then use it, but PLEASE don't just use it to keep him/her "clean" as a measure to prevent it. Take it from a ~guilt-ridden~ mother.
Editscript has some way to prevent that too.
I don't know how it works though.
There are all kinds of ways to prevent
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They definitely need to go digital, which may prevent hiring another MT
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ctrl+space will prevent expansion.
It seems to me I had to change a preference on Shorthand to prevent that...
but it's been so long ago I can't remember...I think it had something to do about the playback speed. You should mess around with it.
To change Operation Preferences
Choosing "Preferences" from the File menu brings up the Preferences Dialog Box. Click on the Operation tab to access Operation Preferences.
Pause
Use this option to add a delay (in milliseconds; 1000 msec = 1 second) after a specified number of keystrokes. This option is useful if you find that ShortHand is playing back text too fast for the target application to handle.
Verify Target Window Receives Keystroke
When this option is checked, Shorthand waits for a keystroke to be properly received by the target window before playing back the next keystroke; this prevents Shorthand from accidentally overrwriting text in another window. The disadvantage is that, on some systems, this could result in very poor playback performance. Unchecking this box causes Shorthand to playback Keystrokes at maximum speed without verifying if the keystrokes reach their intended target. If you experience lost or transposed keystrokes, use the Pause option above to slow down Shorthand.
... to prevent neck strain. Lift it up on something if it's
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How do you prevent them? EZ! Tell you husband to splurge on a Brazilian Wax for Mother's Day!!!!
That's how you prevent them!
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...to prevent carpal tunnel and other repetative stress injury. nm
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