Know how to prevent repetitive strain injury

Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) can happen if you do any repetitive work (i.e. typing) for long periods of time without taking breaks.

Overview

The following links provide some background information on repetitive strain injury.

• Workplace ergonomics and reptitive stress injury (from WebMD)
• Repetitive Strain Injury (from Wikipedia)

Software designed to prevent you from getting RSI

Here are some software packages that are designed to remind you to take breaks (both "micro-breaks" of a few seconds and longer "rest breaks") at certain pre-set intervals.

• Workrave (for PC and Linux)
• AntiRSI (for Mac OSX)