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extreme shoulder pain since working VR


Posted: Feb 15, 2012

After 20 years MTing, my wrist and hand pain disappeared after starting editing versus transcribing.  But now both shoulders ache and I have pain on lifting above head.  The pain makes it difficult to sleep due to shoulder aching, both sides.  Anyone else experienced this or am I just getting old age.  I do not play sports or do anything else extreme with my arms.

 

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Maybe this correlates - countryMT

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I was researching yesterday trying to find out what kind of glasses/ progressive lenses I needed to get to use at the computer as I am having a terrible time seeing (I need a new prescription). I read something about computer vision syndrome and how when we look at the computer we always hold our shoulders and body a certain way to see the screen clearly. I know with straight typing at least we can close our eyes or even look at the wall while typing at least for a few seconds or even minutes; whereas with VR we are constantly having to keep our eyes on the screen and usually our bodies are held in the same position. Maybe that has something to do with it? I don't have a solution though. I am going to try to get some computer-only glasses to use at work.

shoulder pain - ifeelurpain

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same thing happened to me!! My left shoulder was killing me! I could hardly move it and my neck, too! I left the MT profession because of it and it's better. I also used to get incredible headaches. All gone now.

I use the mouse a lot with VR, and my mousing - shoulder gets achy sometimes. (sm)

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I found that even though I'm right-handed, I can use the mouse just as well with my left hand. So if one shoulder gets sore, I switch it to the other side for a while, or a couple days, or whatever. Maybe that would help?

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