There is a very interesting article on this in 10th April 1999 New Scientist magazine, and as Joel says, the key to repairing the condition seems to be to retrain the sensory nerves and those controlling the muscles to discriminate correctly again. If anybody can't get ahold of the article in a library, email me and I will OCR it for you. This is a problem which may affect quite a few of us computer people from time to time... it is important that we understand that there is now a solution. Cheers, - Miriam At 21:52 6/05/99 -0500, Joel Hardy wrote: >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. > >-- >Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of >"subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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