On an tangential note—my and my mother’s wrist pain dramatically reduced after replacing the regular mouse with a ball mouse. I felt additional benefits when I got a touch screen laptop which largely eliminated mousing. My mother’s wrist pain additionally reduced after regularly doing negative-pull-ups. (I did the pull ups too, but didn’t notice any pain reduction—although my grip strength seemed to returned to what it was pre-pain and possibly higher.)
Also, they sell funny keyboards now that radically alter typing ergonomics (some even divide the keyboard into two parts so you can put hands far apart) which I’ve never used, but want to try to get rid of the last little vestigial twinges of pain I sometimes get.
Maybe you’ve tried everything, but if you have not my experience leads me to believe that wrist pain (especially due to excessive programming) is one of those things where if you really try multiple workarounds, you can eventually eliminate or mitigate it, and it’s very much worth doing considering how much wrist pain disincentives work.
(Counterpoint—my wrist pain flared up when I was in college and doing a lot of assignments at once on a little laptop, and was so acute that the ulnar styloid was red and warm to touch when I started frantically trying ways to fix it, so this might just be regression to the mean and/or minor reductions in computer use since then)
On an tangential note—my and my mother’s wrist pain dramatically reduced after replacing the regular mouse with a ball mouse. I felt additional benefits when I got a touch screen laptop which largely eliminated mousing. My mother’s wrist pain additionally reduced after regularly doing negative-pull-ups. (I did the pull ups too, but didn’t notice any pain reduction—although my grip strength seemed to returned to what it was pre-pain and possibly higher.)
Also, they sell funny keyboards now that radically alter typing ergonomics (some even divide the keyboard into two parts so you can put hands far apart) which I’ve never used, but want to try to get rid of the last little vestigial twinges of pain I sometimes get.
Maybe you’ve tried everything, but if you have not my experience leads me to believe that wrist pain (especially due to excessive programming) is one of those things where if you really try multiple workarounds, you can eventually eliminate or mitigate it, and it’s very much worth doing considering how much wrist pain disincentives work.
(Counterpoint—my wrist pain flared up when I was in college and doing a lot of assignments at once on a little laptop, and was so acute that the ulnar styloid was red and warm to touch when I started frantically trying ways to fix it, so this might just be regression to the mean and/or minor reductions in computer use since then)