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Originally Posted by loramin
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Sure, but if the angles of all your body parts were correct, your mouse usage wouldn't hurt you. It's the fact that your arm is bent, your wrist isn't straight, or whatever else ... in other words, it's your ergonomics (or lack thereof) that are causing the injury.
As others have said, a more ergonomic mouse (vertical, ball, etc.) could help, but checking your posture, arm/wrist position, leg angle, etc. could also. And yes, I understand the pain isn't in your leg, but if your legs (or any other body part) is positioned incorrectly, your body might move other things (incorrectly) to compensate, indirectly causing your injury.
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It still wouldn't work, even if your chair, desk, and monitor were perfectly ergonomic, you would still have to hold the mouse palm down, this causes the radius and ulna (the bones in your forearm) to twist around each other, your tendons that control your fingers (for clicking and mouse wheel) then rub against the bones painfully and wear out over time. Vertical/"ergonomic" mice dont help at all, (at least for me, I have tried about 12+ mouse alternatives including mouse bar, vertical mouse, air mouse, presenter pointer, pen mouse, etc) none of these untwist the bones enough to make a difference. Some solutions I can think of would be to design a mouse that can be held palm up, possibly a steam controller (allthough they are expensive) thanks to a reply to my post, or if the devs would allow software like xpadder (i will give joytokey a try)