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Ergonomic inventor offers relief for mousing pain

March 20th, 2006

While we’ve been a bit remiss lately about posting on ergonomic topics, the responses to our last two posts have reminded us that Ergo is a bread-and-butter topic for us. Here’s an interesting email we received from Claude Rallins, the president of a company called MouseMassager.com:

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I just discovered Health-Hack[.com] and was reading your review of the new (ergonomic) pen-shaped mouse. I agree with your point about folks reporting repetitive strain from pens as well as from a computer mouse. Despite the ergo-design Any device can and will result in repetitive strain when used often enough.

In any case, the key to avoiding device generated RSI is less a (cold-hard) device design issue and more a body maintenance and posture issue. My partner (Dr. T. Jackson) and I think we have the solution to mouse generated RSI (Geek) computer health issues. Its called the Mouse Massager… a soft multi-layered piece of a fabric technology (patent pending) that you can read all about at… Mouse Massager.com!

Thanks for your time,
Claude Rallins, President
Mouse Massager.com / Handy Massager.com

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Although we have not tested the Mouse Massager, from the website the “Fabric Technology” appears to be simply a shock absorber made of four 15″X15″ layers of polyester. The “device” is placed under the mousing arm from the elbow up to the point of just overlapping the mouse itself. Now there may be more to it, since the Mouse Massager is claimed to provide massage for the arm and wrist, but how this is acheived is not apparent from their promotional materials.

If you have tried the Mouse Massager, please let us know about your opinion and experience of it.

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