Double Crush

Double crush refers to the belief that ones problems are caused by not one isolated problem but by two. A patient who has had an unsuccessful wrist surgery might later be diagnosed with symptoms in the upper arm, chest or neck. He or she responds more favorably to therapy on this second area and is sold on the notion that both areas were problems. The possibility is that the first remedy had no viability and the second diagnosis was at the hands of a practitioner more knowledgeable in the patterns of computer related Repetitive Strain Injury.

Although you have one body, you have one system for holding your hands out over the keyboard for countless hours and one set of muscles and nerves and blood vessels tightly entwined along your humerus radius and ulna. It is a design intended for motion and not static position. The design can easily accommodate millions of priodic bursts of tension and movement but not thousands of incessant nine to five shifts.