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    Learn More About RSI

Online Resources

The following web pages are full of information about RSI prevention and contain many links to RSI resources on the Net. Learn about ergonomic furniture, software, exercises, see photographs of alternative keyboards and input devices and more.

http://www.engr.unl.edu/ee/eeshop/rsi.html
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dwallach/tifaq
http://www.ihr.com/topics.html (see Keyboards and Repetitive strain injury)

The Sorehand mailing list is an energetic discussion of every aspect of RSI. E-mail a letter to listserv@itssrv1.ucsf.edu containing the following text:

    SUBSCRIBE SOREHAND (your name goes here) INFO

You will receive a large volume of mail. To reduce the mailings into a single Digest, send the list server the command:

    set sorehand digest

Books

Stigliani, Joan, The Computer User's Survival Guide, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 1995.
A new book: Extremely comprehensive, well designed, and easy to use.

Pascarelli, Emil, and Quilter, Deborah, Repetitive Strain Injury, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1994.
Simply the most comprehensive and informative book available. Written by people who really understand the psychological and lifestyle impact of RSI.

Sellers, Don, Zap!, Peachpit Press, Inc., Berkeley, CA, 1994.
Written in easy-to-read, short chapters. Covers RSI and other topics such as pregnancy, office air, and lighting. This book has a large appendix listing resources for further information.

Brown, Stephanie, The Hand Book, Ergonomome, New York City, New York, 1994.
Most workers will continue to use standard keyboards on their computers. This book teaches you how to use them while avoiding injury.

Putz-Anderson, ed., Cumulative Trauma Disorders - A manual for musculoskeletal diseases of the upper limbs, Taylor and Francis, Bristol, PA, 1988.
A good book to help your company implement an RSI prevention program.

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