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Question about carpial tunnel!
I noticed something strange. There is a contradiction between these two phenomena I noticed:
- I have heard and seen a lot of artists having problems with their carpial tunnel, because they use their hand (specifically fingers and wrist) a lot while drawing, and one advice to avoid this problem is drawing using the shoulder.
!!!BUT!!!:
- Students (especially in middle school and high school) at school take notes by handwriting every day, up to 6 hours long a day, for years, and they MUST use wrist and fingers for that, and however don't damage their carpial tunnel. I have never seen a student having serious wrist pain because of handwriting a lot, only a bit of fatigue because of the lost habit after summer holidays.
How are these two things possible?! Are children and young adults immune to carpial tunnel, so the problems arise only later when adults keep handwriting or drawing long after they are done with school? Or is the wrist somehow more soliticed by drawing than by writing? Or is there a secret epidemic of children with ruined wrists because of school and nobody is talking about it?
I am asking this here because you artists famously know about carpial tunnels and I hope you also know the answer to this.
If you don't know the answer, you can as well tell me your guesses, I am curious about your theories. Thanks:)
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I noticed something strange. There is a contradiction between these two phenomena I noticed:
- I have heard and seen a lot of artists having problems with their carpial tunnel, because they use their hand (specifically fingers and wrist) a lot while drawing, and one advice to avoid this problem is drawing using the shoulder.
!!!BUT!!!:
- Students (especially in middle school and high school) at school take notes by handwriting every day, up to 6 hours long a day, for years, and they MUST use wrist and fingers for that, and however don't damage their carpial tunnel. I have never seen a student having serious wrist pain because of handwriting a lot, only a bit of fatigue because of the lost habit after summer holidays.
How are these two things possible?! Are children and young adults immune to carpial tunnel, so the problems arise only later when adults keep handwriting or drawing long after they are done with school? Or is the wrist somehow more soliticed by drawing than by writing? Or is there a secret epidemic of children with ruined wrists because of school and nobody is talking about it?
I am asking this here because you artists famously know about carpial tunnels and I hope you also know the answer to this.
If you don't know the answer, you can as well tell me your guesses, I am curious about your theories. Thanks:)
Puoi rispondere anche in ITALIANO (per favore, sono stufa di tutto questo inglese)Tu peux répondre en FRANÇAIS aussi (s'il te plaît, j'en ai assez d'autant d'anglais)Feb 22, 2024#question
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#artistproblems
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J'y connais absolument rien mais je pense qu'il y a aussi une histoire de tenue du crayon/stylet. Par exemple je n'ai jamais de problème de douleur en dessinant/écrivant parce que je ne serre pas mon stylet très fort dans mes doigts donc j'ai des mouvements assez souples, mais en fait j'ai toujours écrit et dessiné comme ça. En revanche les gens qui serrent le crayon fort ont plus de chances de se blesser, j'imagine. Je le remarque assez facilement quand je fais d'autres activités avec ma main droite où il faut que je force beaucoup plus (coudre, utiliser ma Dremel...), j'ai souvent mal le lendemain
Bref pour résumer, je pense que plus tu serres le crayon, plus tu as de chance de te faire mal. Peut-être que les artistes ont plus tendance à serrer le crayon que la plupart des gens ? Honnêtement aucune idée
Bref pour résumer, je pense que plus tu serres le crayon, plus tu as de chance de te faire mal. Peut-être que les artistes ont plus tendance à serrer le crayon que la plupart des gens ? Honnêtement aucune idée
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oh great I wrote an entire response and it deleted. assuming its an artfol glitch??
anyway, in summary I wrote...
it could be because of pencil pressure, joint pain/arthritis in people of an older age, and the fact that usually there are breaks with taking notes (in between classes/possibly not writing in every class)
personally, I have issues with my carpal tunnel with both writing essays/notes too much as well as drawing, most likely due to my pencil pressure when I write and the fact that prismacolors make my wrist endure a lot of pain. on the other hand, the majority of my friends use pens to write notes and have pretty much no pain.
anywho, I'm so sorry for any notification spam, I just refreshed and saw my response was missing and I just went "oh no" and had to fix it.
anyway, in summary I wrote...
it could be because of pencil pressure, joint pain/arthritis in people of an older age, and the fact that usually there are breaks with taking notes (in between classes/possibly not writing in every class)
personally, I have issues with my carpal tunnel with both writing essays/notes too much as well as drawing, most likely due to my pencil pressure when I write and the fact that prismacolors make my wrist endure a lot of pain. on the other hand, the majority of my friends use pens to write notes and have pretty much no pain.
anywho, I'm so sorry for any notification spam, I just refreshed and saw my response was missing and I just went "oh no" and had to fix it.
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Maybe this is just me but I remember having pretty bad wrist pain from writing notes all day when I was in my first year of highschool
Although I eventually noticed that I was pressing down way too hard on my pencil and that was causing the issue. One I switched to using a pen it eventually went away, most likely because you don’t need to put so much pressure on a pen for it to work. Even nowadays when I use a pencil for too long I get wrist pain, guess I’m just not meant to use pencils
Although I eventually noticed that I was pressing down way too hard on my pencil and that was causing the issue. One I switched to using a pen it eventually went away, most likely because you don’t need to put so much pressure on a pen for it to work. Even nowadays when I use a pencil for too long I get wrist pain, guess I’m just not meant to use pencils
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I’m not a carpoal tunnel expert but I will say that I feel like when I write I’m using small wrist and arm movements versus when I draw I’m using larger movements so it could be a thing of those small movements cause less of a problem.
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