Painful RSI conditions

Diagnosis

Diagnosis should always be done by medical professionals but being aware of the different conditions can give you insights into why you have pain.

 

Potential Trapping of Nerves

This can lead to referred pain which of course typically keeps doctors and patients alike guessing for longer in determining the diagnosis.

 

MRI scans and nerve conduction tests may be used to try to pin point where the cause of the problem might be.

 

 

Neck

Cervical Osteoarthritis

 

 

Mid and Lower Back

Osteoarthritis, Spinal stenosis and

Slipped disc are possibilities which your Doctor may be considering.

 

If you are struggling to find a treatment that works, there are two that are not entirely mainstream but with high levels of success and well worth reading up about...Alexander Technique and MindBody Syndrome Treatment.

 

Computer Posture is developing specific information in this area but we do recommend visiting the Bupa back pain page.

RSI Conditions

Two people faced with the same computer ergonomics are unlikely to develop the same conditions. One might suffer in dreadful pain while the other has no symptoms whatsoever. Or alternatively one might be plagued with back pain and the other with wrist and hand pain.

 

RSI Body Map

A very rough place for the layman to start is to assume that the problem is where the pain is felt and the RSI body map below will help you. The links will take you to information on that particular condition.

Be aware that pain can be "referred". Put simply, where you feel the pain is not always the source. A neck problem can give you pain or numbness in your fingers, arm etc. In this case, the nerve relaying information from your fingers to your brain is aggravated or obstructed along the way.

 

Human Body Map - RSI Map

 

Shoulder and Collar area

 

Frozen Shoulder

Rotator Cuff Syndrome


Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

 

Elbow

Tennis Elbow

Golfers Elbow

 

Wrist, Hand, Fingers & Thumb

Tendonitis  and 
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Writers Cramp