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Discussion on: Are you using an ergonomic mouse?

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Jen

I have an ergodox EZ with tilt/tent kit with an apple magic trackpad 2 on stilts in the middle (made from some paper straws I taped together). It's sort of aligned/tilted so it feels like an extension of the right keyboard. I think it's common to have a trackball mouse in the middle with this setup. With the trackball / elevated trackpad it removes vertical movement. and the trackball/pad reduces the space you need since they're fixed objects. The keyboard also has nice support for mouse keys/cursor movement with acceleration/slow mode.

What type of keyboard are you using? When I used more "conventional" keyboards, I preferred TKL (keyboard with no numpad) because it reduces the horizontal travel between home-keys and the mouse which helped with arm and shoulder pain/fatigue most.

Most of my wrist pain came from lack of wrist/palm rest. Palm rests are better since the pressure is on your hand rather than the wrist itself.