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Beyond the Wrist: Debugging RSI
Beyond the Wrist: Debugging RSI # This is a personal essay about a period of major suffering from chronic pain I went through, and how I acquired the knowledge and skill to eventually lift me out of it. A fire burning # I am about to give up. My eyes are bleary after four days of staring at numpy arrays. I want to smash my keyboard and throw it out into the snow, but I have promised myself that I will fix this bug by the end of the week.
Logically, the available treatments become either ‘fixing’ the tissue damage by doing wrist exercises to ‘balance’ the muscles in my forearm, or taking an NSAID like Advil to chemically inhibit the nociceptive response. They don’t use the language of predictive processing, but I found PP a better frame than their own to understand their proposed practices of “somatic tracking” and “positive affect induction”. Even as some of their theories have been superseded, pioneers like George Engel, John Sarno and Ronald Melzack created the foundational building blocks for discussions like this to happen.
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