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I have CTS. I will be scheduling surgery to correct it soon. It's neither
a joke nor an excuse.
You may possibly be confusing CTS with repetitive stress injury (RSI). The
two are related but not necessarily identical. RSI results from doing the
same motion over and over in a harmful manner; if you repeat movements but
are using correct posture, you may never develop RSI.
One side effect of RSI is carpal tunnel syndrome, which is where the nerve
passing through the narrow carpal tunnel (part of the structure of your
wrist bones) swells up. When it swells, it presses against the bones of
your wrist and you get the characteristic tingling/numbness/loss of
function.
However, the nerve can swell for many different reasons: age, obesity,
pregnancy, arthritis, disease, etc. It is quite common in pregnant and
nursing women due to water retention--even women who never go near a
keyboard. You can get CTS without having RSI--I did. In my case, it is
emphatically NOT the result of keyboard use, and in fact does not always
prevent me from using a keyboard. However, the effects of CTS vary
considerably from person to person, so a lot of people suffer from both
RSI and associated CTS. It is a recognized occupational disease of
writers, or so my neurosurgeon tells me.
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