RSI from excessive speedcubing?

[CubingCockney]

Heyy there you sexy cubers

Time and time again you hear of stories about young children who "Text too much" and therefore develop repetitive strain injury. The reason I use inverted comma's are because they consider 15 texts the optimum amount you should send each day and I know people, including me, who could send up to 10x that.

Anyway, back to my point. we also hear of people who work with computers a lot that develop repetitive strain injury because of the constant typing that they are carrying out.

So the question I ask is, are any speedcubers out there developing RSI? Could it affect our cubing in the future? Have you already suffered from RSI?

Discuss...

~ Cubingcockney

 

[MaeLSTRoM]

I have heard of some people getting it, but it hasn't happened to me yet.

 

[chris w]

I've had other problems that weren't the direct result of too much cubing, however it did make it worse. But not RSI yet either.

 

[Systemdertoten]

Yes, cubing can cause RSI.
If it isn't RSI, it could be Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or arthritis.

Cubers need to take care of their hands.

Luckily, I only get carpal tunnel syndrome.

 

[bluecloe45]

If people use new storeboughts, then yes there probably would be some people with it.

 

[luke1984]

There's almost never anything physically wrong with people who suffer from RSI. It has much more to do with stress.

It's a little like the problems some pregnant women have with the pelvis. There's a very specific pelvic "injury" which ONLY women in Belgium and The Netherlands suffer from, and nowhere else on the entire planet. Aside from exeptions of course. It is purely a psychosomatic problem, induced by pre-natal stress and people telling scary stories about all the things that can go wrong during pregnancy.

So unless you're really stressed out, I don't think there's any danger.