I'm really pleased you mentioned stretching your wrists. I used to work for a university in New Zealand, which had a number of people off work because of RSI injuries. As New Zealand is a welfare state, the university was paying near-full wages to these ineffective workers, and some of them didn't come back for months or years.
They hired a nurse just for RSI injuries. The first and most important rule was "Muscles don't rebuild if you don't use them, so if they are hurting, you have to use them, not protect them." Everyone had been putting their wrists into wrist supports (which is what you would do if it was a broken bone or broken skin), and the pain wouldn't go away because the wrists weren't active, and thus weren't healing.
Whenever I see someone wearing a wrist support, I bite my tongue and try not to tell them to get it off, as its making it worse. I think I just sound like a self-important jerk, so I try not to.
Going to the gym, exercising my shoulders and wrists, is the best RSI medicine I've ever found.
They hired a nurse just for RSI injuries. The first and most important rule was "Muscles don't rebuild if you don't use them, so if they are hurting, you have to use them, not protect them." Everyone had been putting their wrists into wrist supports (which is what you would do if it was a broken bone or broken skin), and the pain wouldn't go away because the wrists weren't active, and thus weren't healing.
Whenever I see someone wearing a wrist support, I bite my tongue and try not to tell them to get it off, as its making it worse. I think I just sound like a self-important jerk, so I try not to.
Going to the gym, exercising my shoulders and wrists, is the best RSI medicine I've ever found.