The Importance of Early Identification

• Address your symptoms when they first arise
• Stop or reduce your work as best as you can
• For every week that you work with Repetitive Strain Injury symptoms add one month to the time it will take you to heal

RSI in computer users creates a repeating cycle of pain and injury that snowballs secretively through all parts of the upper extremity and is naturally believed to be a sore muscle to be rested to cured. The rest oftenS cures the pain but shifts the load to another part. The quick cure makes one believe that the problem was incidental and isolated and not chronic cumulative and systematic. Once you cross the line where you got substantial muscle inflammation, you have missed your chance for early intervention.