Home remedies · Back, muscles & joints
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Rest the forearm instead of holding it up, bring the mouse closer, keep the wrist straight. Every half hour spread the fingers and make a fist ten times.
The tendons run through a narrow tunnel at the wrist. Hours in a bent position raise the pressure there; a straight one takes it away.
Wrist rests and special mice help some people and not others — the data are mixed.
If the fingers fall asleep at night, with numbness from thumb to ring finger, or a weakening grip, have it assessed.
Have it assessed rather than treated at home: back pain with numbness in the saddle area, disturbed bladder or bowel function, weakness or fever. A joint that cannot bear weight after an injury, or is deformed. A one-sided swollen, warm leg.