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    4 days ago

    Had carpal tunnel surgery last year and have kind of been hoping and crossing my fingers that it would finally relieve me of my symptoms, but as I’m nearing the year mark I think I’m coming to terms that this might be the best it gets for me. I can still use my hand mostly, but depending on the task it starts to go tingly and numb and I can’t feel it. There’s more they can try to do but I can’t even get an appointment right now because I haven’t finished paying off my medical debt with the place that did it.

    But I think deciding to accept it is helping me turn a new leaf. I’m going to start saving for some new controller stuff so I can start gaming like I used to at one point. It will be a while until I can afford it, but I’m excited to try again.

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      Can I ask what kind of brace/wrap situation you work with? I don’t… well I don’t think I have carpal tunnel. However my hands do that too. I have been having some good success with ace wrapps. However I really only know how to use them boxing style. I did also get a racing pedal set up so I can have a few keybinds that are easier to hit.

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        I don’t know what I would call these. I have pretty generic wrist braces I bought online. I swap it up because they can become irritating in their own way after a while. Basically covers everything but the fingers and thumb and have metal pieces to prevent movement. I wear them at night and parts of the day depending on what I’m doing. I’ve been considering getting some wraps for when I don’t want something super clunky on me.

        Yeah pedals might be a new purchase for me. It’s my mouse hand that really sucks. I had a NCS done showing carpal tunnel in both hands, but my mouse hand literally lost all feeling in it at one point. Just straight up couldnt move it.The other hand just tingles a lot. Since my surgery I haven’t had a recurrence of that level of numbness, but it still sucks a lot worse than my other hand.

        So anyway, I want to get a couple of pedals I can use to mimic left click and right click.

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          Do they provide compression or support or both? Sounds like they are for support. I have been using compression so we might be trying diffrent methodology. A little USB one with two pedals ought to be cheap and easy off your preferred online retailer

    • roux [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netM
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      If you are on computers a lot, look into split ergo keyboards too. I’ve seen a lot of people with carpal tunnel and other hand and shoulder issues come to the ergo keyboard subreddit asking about split boards and I even went that route to avoid issues down the road since I’m practically on my computer 24/7.

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        Yeah it’s basically my profession. I’ve been considering getting one, but I use dictation if I need to do typing mostly at this point. I’m not a writer, so I don’t have to be the speediest.

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          Dictation is probably even better then lol. I was hesitant to suggest ergo because of the unsolicited advice rule but I’m kind of evangelical about ergo and column staggered boards lol.

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            Oh this is my first time here so I had no idea even lol.

            Anyway, you seem to be in the know. Do you have any recommendations on a split keyboard? My keyboard happens to have shit the bed recently so I am in the market for one anyway

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              If you want a one and done board and don’t care about falling down the rabbit hole, check out this company: https://www.zsa.io/

              If you do however want to go down the rabbit hole, beekeebs is a good place to start: https://beekeeb.com/

              Leo at Beekeebs will build the boards for you for an extra fee if you don’t wanna worry about getting your hands too dirty. He also uses Vial firmware that allows for dynamic programming of the boards with minimal fuss. ZSA comes with it’s own software so it’s still gonna be the easier route to go.