how can i relieve the pain in my hands and fingers due to long hours of computer typing?
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First, make sure that your desk, computer, and chair are ergonomically correct for you. I've had a lot of paijn in my hands and wrist in the past, but it totally went away when I learned how to set up my work area properly.\n\nYou could probably get more information online, but the advice I was given:\n\nMake sure that you're not looking UP at the computer screen. The top line of the computer screen should be below your sight line -- that is, if you look straight ahead, you should have to look down to see the top line on the screen.\n\nMake sure the keyboard isn't too high. Put your arms our, bent at the elbow, so that your forearms are parellel to the floor. Your keyboard should be lower than the height of your hands.\n\nDon't use a wrist rest.\n\nDon't use a chair that's too high. Your feet should be comfortably flat on the floor.\n\nGood luck. Try making changes, give it some time, and it will likely improve. I know it did for me.
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Doing "this"? Typing at your computer keyboard? It might be overuse - do you have a clerical job?
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Drink lots of liquids, Tylenol, rest and chicken soup!
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Drink Gatoraid if it's available to you at work, or something with caffeine.  Tap on accupressure points, there are some on the outside of your hand, where the "karate chop" point is, use three fingers from your other hand and tap about 7 times and take deep relaxing breaths, think good thoughts about how you feel when you don't have a headache while you are doing this.  Good luck!
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Short-Term Relief\n\n    * Medications--Because people with osteoarthritis have very little inflammation, pain relievers such as acetaminophen (Tylenol*) may be effective. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis generally have pain caused by inflammation and often benefit from aspirin or other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen (Motrin or Advil).\n\n    * Heat and cold--The decision to use either heat or cold for arthritis pain depends on the type of arthritis and should be discussed with your doctor or physical therapist. Moist heat, such as a warm bath or shower, or dry heat, such as a heating pad, placed on the painful area of the joint for about 15 minutes may relieve the pain. An ice pack (or a bag of frozen vegetables) wrapped in a towel and placed on the sore area for about 15 minutes may help to reduce swelling and stop the pain. If you have poor circulation, do not use cold packs.\n\n    * Joint protection--Using a splint or a brace to allow joints to rest and protect them from injury can be helpful. Your physician or physical therapist can make recommendations.\n\n    * Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)--A small TENS device that directs mild electric pulses to nerve endings that lie beneath the skin in the painful area may relieve some arthritis pain. TENS seems to work by blocking pain messages to the brain and by modifying pain perception.\n\n    * Massage--In this pain-relief approach, a massage therapist will lightly stroke and/or knead the painful muscle. This may increase blood flow and bring warmth to a stressed area. However, arthritis-stressed joints are very sensitive, so the therapist must be familiar with the problems of the disease.\n\nOsteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis are chronic diseases that may last a lifetime. Learning how to manage your pain over the long term is an important factor in controlling the disease and maintaining a good quality of life. Following are some sources of long-term pain relief.
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I spend 60+ hours a week working (mostly data entry) with the mouse / keyboard.  My wrists cause great pain at times.  \n\nThings I've found to help prevent the worst of it include raising the keyboard and mouse a little or lowering my chair, and putting a thicker pad under the heal of the hand and wrist.  Not so high or in a way that keeps you in a strain - holding on, but enough to keep the wrists semi straight or even slightly downward - more relaxed - stopping the hours at bent angles.  (My guess is better blood flow - but whatever - it helps me.)  \n\nDuring the worst times - Like you, I shift hands from time to time.  I've tried Motin or other inflammation type treatments, wrist braces (not too tight or the pain and injury can worsen), alternating ice and heat, and ointments like Aspercreme or Equate.  Of course, all those things are for relief, not a cure.\n\nWorst case, and one I personally try to avoid, but my cousin has had on both wrists - surgery.  She found the surgery to be less than pleasant, but reported the relief was well worth it.  Search for 'carpal tunnel syndrome'.  There's several medical sights with great information. \n\nI noticed something else, too.  Nothing official mind you - but - if I'm tensed - on a deadline, etc., it seems to occur more quickly and more severely.  As with most things in life, a couple minutes of breathing and stress relief also seems to help.\n\nI hope some of this helps you.
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Rest your fingers, hand, and wrist. Stop activities that you suspect are causing numbness and pain. \nIce your wrist for 10 to 15 minutes at a time, as often as once or twice an hour, and take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to relieve pain and reduce swelling. They may help you to relieve symptoms. \nWear a wrist splint at night to keep your wrist in a neutral position and relieve pressure on your median nerve. See an illustration of a wrist splint. \nAlso, do simple range-of-motion exercises with your fingers and wrist to prevent stiffening. Stop if you have pain or numbness. \nGood luck.
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cant be to paralyzed if you are typing on the PC
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take some analgesics, wear a hot patch, and drink hot liquids like a chamomile tea\nit will help
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tylenol extra strength and wet a cloth towel with cold water, lay down and try to sleep it off.  sometimes massaging the muscle inbetween your thumb and your index (pointer) finger of your dominate hand helps too.
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try a wrist rest cushion.
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Get wrist braces and/or a wrist support.  Sit properly at your desk.  Supposedly St. John's Wort helps, but I don't know if that's valid or not.  If it gets too horrible, there's surgery, but I'm sure that's not fun.
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Use some analgesic spray and take rest.
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try a tens machine and/or a heat pack.
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If you can't seem to get off the computer, try typing your notes (or retyping them if you have them typed already). If you get bored with that try researching the things you're learning about online.
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This has worked in the past for folks with tendonitis, repetitive stress syndrome, and similar maladies:\n\n(1) Ice, as mentioned above... only do the old fashioned hydrotherapy type of icing... freeze water in a styrofoam cup and peel down the sides.  You might want to have someone else do the icing since it might be awkward for you.  Do small circles continuously in the area of the tendonitis for 7 minutes.  Apply a warm, moist cloth and warm the area for another 7 minutes.  If you still feel pain, do another 7 minutes of continuous icing movement.  (The continuous movement prevents "freezer burn" from occurring... something that someone mentioned above as a danger).  After the icing, gently massage the area with an oil (like Virgin Coconut Oil for example).  The reddened skin will indicate that there is good circulation going on... circulation=healing.  Do this as often as you need to.  \n\nAvoid the drugs if possible.\n\nRest your wrists.  Stretching and massage are effective in the wrist area as they are on other areas of the body.  Be gentle.\n\nThree essential oil blends that I know about are particularly effective: Panaway, Valor, and Relieve It!\n\nFor deep penetration of the healing effects of the oils, first apply Panaway (a couple of drops gently feathered into the area of discomfort) and three minutes later apply a 'layer' of Valor (3-4 drops).  Peppermint oil is also effective.  Warning: Don't use essential oils that contain chemical solvents.  If you want to purchase any of the above blends, come to http://tinyurl.com/ykxyuk    Peppermint and Panaway are in\na kit called "The Essential Seven" that is very much like an \nessential oil first aid kit.\n\nAway with Pain!!!\n~HealthiaCynthia\nCertified Comprehensive Coach\nModerator at  brand new Yahoo! group: http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/My_Monday_Miracles/
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I would do stretches each morning before you start your day to get you loosened up.  Take a tylenol for the pain, a warm bath w/ epson salt relaxes your muscles at the end of the day!\nHeating pads also help...try webmd.com they have alot of medical advice