What sort of hours are you logging on your keyboard these days?
I spend all day at my computer, but not all of every day is spent typing. One or two days a week I program most of the day, and a few weeks ago I spent part of a week writing about 40 pages of raw text, and then editing and desktop-publishing it into a 50 page ebook.
could I impose on you to narrow down which books you found helpful, please?
I found the Egoscue Method (his 1993 book) to be most informative and motivational regarding the actual functional anatomy. Some of his newer works have shorter sequences of exercises to accomplish similar goals, but the total time difference isn't substantial -- a few minutes shaved off an hour's work. For whatever reason, I never found Pain-Free At Your PC very motivating to me personally to do the routines in it, though I did try some of the exercises.
Excellent, thanks for the recommendation and for your information. I've bought his book "Pain-free at your PC" and I've started doing the exercises. so far the results are encouraging, but it's too early to tell whether or not this will be the solution I've been after.
I'm thinking about writing a more substantive post about how humans work and how we can work better, a little like this one. As is common with these sorts of things, once I started to do research and pull on various threads, it turned out that the field was pretty deep and would require time to understand. But in the meantime, I just thought I would link to this video of someone programming using only their voice.
As I suffer with symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome, this is of particular interest to me. Once I watched it I decided to start looking at different voice recognition software so that I could still get some work done while typing less. I'm happy to say that even the default software for speech recognition which came with windows is actually very able and accurate. I dictated almost this entire post using that software.
As far as I can tell, Dragon Naturally Speaking is the gold standard in voice recognition software. It does come with a pretty hefty price tag, but it may be worth it if you have serious repetitive stress injuries, or as a preventative measure if you're someone who spends a lot of time at their computer. And if that doesn't work, chances are good your computer has adequate software pre-installed.