<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Good advice Tom Its interesting to note that RIS was never a big problem for typists .... until the advent of the very light touch computer keyboard. For the very simple reason that this light touch led so very many to allow themselves a bit of laziness in resting the heel of their hands on the table just in front of the keyboard, which further makes all to easy to slouch into a poor sitting posture. Typing away on these light keys with the hands and body so constrained is a recipe for RIS, especially when the <<player>> doesn't have the good sense ( or permission) to get up and move around a bit from time to time..  Mouse movement and actuation has the same kind of pitfall. If you keep your hand elevated off the table to use the mouse.. you will have far less problems.  Proper technique is more involved then just this certainly... but this illustrates the root problem well enough. RicB Thomas Cole wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>I don't know that lowering touchweight, or should we say balance weight, is going to cure RSIs. It is possible that a light touch is less stressful for those so afflicted, but I doubt that a heavy touch is the cause of their injury. Whenever a pianist mentions to me that their piano playing is being affected by RSI, I encourage them to find a teacher who knows about the Dorothy Taubman method. So many people are causing themselves injury because they haven't figured out (and no one has taught them) that there is a natural way to play, where it is not such an effort. It's as if the body knows there is a better way to play and RSI is its way of making you aware that you're working too hard. <a href="http://www.teresadybvig.com/taubman.htm" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.teresadybvig.com/taubman.htm</a>  or do a Google search for Dorothy Taubman method. Tom Cole Santa Cruz, CA    </blockquote> -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> <A HREF="http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html">http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html</A>  </html>