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From: "davewalkeriv" <dave@...> 
Date: Mon May 13, 2002 11:10am 
Subject: Re: [LUG] [OT] need trackball for G4--looking for advice...  



--- In logic-users@y..., Jorma Pennanen <jorma.pennanen@p...> wrote:
> >Hi!  I just went thru 3 days of agony with a pinched nerve in my 
back caused
> >by the lack of ergonomics in my studio.  Hoping to prevent this 
from
> >happening again, I'm looking into using, among other things, a 
trackball 

> Kensington Turbo Mouse Pro..no doubt about it. 

I have to agree, that mouse looks great. I have a Microsoft optical 
track ball, 4 buttons. It's nice but I want to get one of the 
kensingtons becuase it has more buttons.

The buttons are a key way to make logic fly.

Another thing you may want to look into is a tablet intput device. 
Wacom makes several models, one has buttons that you can assign (9 
of them) on the pad and has a pen as well as a mouse.

I had a recent case of mouse-wrist, had a guy evaluate my 
workstation and the advice he gave me was this:

1. Use a track ball AND
2. Use at least one other input device as well (Mouse or Tablet)
3. Split time between the input devices
4. Reverse tilt the keyboard tray (Away from you)
5. (Important) Teach your self to use relaxed motions when using 
input devices.
6. (Important) Good posture is important, but creating a single 
position that you work in is bad. Have several positions for your 
keyboard and input devices and rotate the positions.

I used to be a keyboard pounder, and I used to tense up my arm and 
bend my wrist when using a mouse ... I messed up my wrist so bad 
that I had to stop playing AND computering for a month.

Good luck man, I feel your pain ....

-Dave