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Re: "Crippling disorder linked to PalmPilot"

From: Joel Hardy <>
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 21:52:01 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 6 May 1999, Andrew Plumb wrote:
> My left hand still hasn't recovered (for writing with "regular" pens and
> pencils) and I stopped using it months ago.  It's not as though my
> musculature isn't flexible enough; I've been playing music since I was six.
>  My principal instrument is viola, which makes extensive use of my left
> hand, and my playing doesn't seem to have been affected in any way; it's
> not like tendonitis, which completely incapacitates your arm.
> 
> Very strange, and worth watching for in any new interface device.

Wow... another left-handed violist.  We're a rare breed indeed.  Anyway,
have you taken a look at the threads on the list archive about SMUT?  It
basically involves training yourself to be able to fire a single motor
neuron while keeping the ones surrounding it from firing (not enough to
move your arm... or at least not visibly).  Apperantly there are about 12
of them in the bicep area that are close enough to the surface of the skin
to probably be useful enough for something like this, and I'm sure that
wouldn't do anything to your handwriting or anything.

- Joel Hardy ()

P.S.  Sorry for sending that last message twice.  I don't get along too
well with Pine sometimes.

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