Body parts I'll leave up to the experts (it's been a long time since I
audited that anatomy class) but I think what you've got is RSI or Repetitive
Stress Injury.  At least, that's what I've seen it called in Workers Comp
reports.

Kat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barber, Kenneth L." <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 7:18 AM
Subject: hellppp!!!! medical types ,,, Beth the ot even


> i returned to work today, i had a voice mail from my doctor, telling me to
> write the letter justifing my "work related illness".
>
>    he has already told them that i have multiple infamed and injured
> ligaments, tendons and joint from 29 years of forcing myself to be steady
at
> my work station and then doing all the keybordinf, the joints are wearing
> out.
>
>   i also for 6 years actually had to work with the tiny screwdrivers abd
> small tools  and jewelry sized screws and bolts to repair personal compuer
> hardware. all the stess on my hands keyboarding and streaching my fingers
> from aukward positions to the far keys of the boards have infamed the
> tendons and ligaments and joints and continue to do so.
>
> now  this is a problem and also a opportunity. i have a chance to write up
> exactly what has happened in my body, but, emphasizing my hands and arms,
> but, the problem is that while i can say wher it hurts, i can not say a
> tendon is hurting there or a ligament. i can't give the medicle name for
> what is hurting there. i do not know the names of the parts that are
> hurting.
>
> some of you medical types or you that may have a source, can you help.?
>
> .