carpal

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But decades of typing and this kind of work aggravated my carpal tunnel and it was not pleasant.

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Quick take

Of or pertaining to the carpus.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of carpal gathered in one view.

adjective

Of or pertaining to the carpus.

adjective

Of or pertaining to the obvious bend in a bird's wing.

noun

(anatomy) Any of the eight bones of the wrist (carpus).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for carpal.

adjective

Of or pertaining to the carpus.

adjective

Of or pertaining to the obvious bend in a bird's wing.

noun

(anatomy) Any of the eight bones of the wrist (carpus).

Example sentences

But decades of typing and this kind of work aggravated my carpal tunnel and it was not pleasant.

These people getting back pain and carpal tunnel syndrome were all getting ulcers 60 years ago.

With carpal tunnel, it's clear based on the plethora of cures with random success that calling psychogenic may often be right.

Where you can use sam (a gui-ified version of ed) or acme (like emacs, but with hand-eye-coordination replacing carpal tunnel syndrome)?

At least, we don't have to have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) anymore navigating down the registry tree.

I followed carpal's suggestion and all modifications to my deployment are done in my own deploy.rb script.

I found that using a trackpoint and 3 physical buttons has eliminated any carpal tunnel like pains in my hands.

Using a wrist rest increases the risk for carpal tunnel syndrome.

Are you suggesting that back pain and carpal tunnel don't exist?

But the pain (tendinitis or carpal, I did not check with a doctor) that I experienced after only 2 hours of typing disappeared completely.

The problem with tendinitis, carpal tunnel, bulged neck discs, and health issues that afflict programmers is that you don't know you're susceptible until you already have the problem.

Good job filtering out all the carpal tunnelers.

Quote examples

We should sacrifice our last bits of privacy to "the cloud" to save having to pull out our expensive phone, pressing the power button (finger strain/carpal tunnel anyone?!), and tap tapping the screen a bunch of times?

Sarno's theories were helpful for my carpal tunnel, and apparently for many others, I would be hesitant to apply TMS to all back pain, carpal tunnel, and other "office chair diseases." I know you said "overwhelmingly psychogenic", which implies you meant not all cases.

Perhaps the most galling part of this was where she went "here, let me show you" and had me do the various exercises of holding your hands together that are supposed to lead to tingling if you have CTS and when that didn't work she just said "well anyway, you have carpal tunnel syndrome." Thankfully my physical and occupational therapists were more helpful.