Health Update (related to art)
6 years ago
As I posted on Twitter:
I've been having slowly mounting pains in my wrists and forearms for about a year now and just had an occupational therapy appointment about it today.
In addition to stretches and more breaks, they also prescribed reducing aggravating activities.
As it happens, the things that aggravate wrist/forearm pain are everyday workplace/artmaking/recreation activities for me:
- using a keyboard
- using a mouse
- one-handed typing on a phone
- reading books while walking
Thus, I might be a bit less loquacious on messaging apps (we'll see!).
I'll also take some time off manipping, and when I come back to it, I'll reduce the length of streams (probably to about two hours at a go). I'll continue sketching, as that's less intensive!
After all, we know what happens to horses with injured legs!
Thanks for understanding!
I've been having slowly mounting pains in my wrists and forearms for about a year now and just had an occupational therapy appointment about it today.
In addition to stretches and more breaks, they also prescribed reducing aggravating activities.
As it happens, the things that aggravate wrist/forearm pain are everyday workplace/artmaking/recreation activities for me:
- using a keyboard
- using a mouse
- one-handed typing on a phone
- reading books while walking
Thus, I might be a bit less loquacious on messaging apps (we'll see!).
I'll also take some time off manipping, and when I come back to it, I'll reduce the length of streams (probably to about two hours at a go). I'll continue sketching, as that's less intensive!
After all, we know what happens to horses with injured legs!
Thanks for understanding!
V.
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