My New BFF: A Vertical Mouse

2009-08-17 | Filed Under Miscellaneous |

I got an extra bonus at my dentist’s last month. And I mean even more than the wonderful cookies that they have waiting as you walk out. (Yes – I said cookies!)

I noticed a couple of the women at the front desk were using a weird-looking mouse. It looked more like a joy stick than a mouse. They said their wrists were feeling much better since they started using it. It kept their mousing arm and wrist in a neutral position, instead of twisting them.

I’ve been having some pain in my mousing wrist lately that would go away if I stayed off of the computer for at least a day. (Next to impossible for me, of course.) I’d tried wrist pads and even started learning keyboard shortcuts to keep my mousing to a minimum, but that wasn’t helping as much as I’d hoped.

I love trying out new gadgets, so as soon as I got home I popped online and looked for the mouse on ebay (my first stop to shop for anything) and there it was – the Evoluent Vertical Mouse 3 – Buy It Now – Free shipping – Click!

It arrived in about a week. Then it took another week for me to become comfortable with it. (No remarks concerning old dogs…new tricks, please.) I shut off the programming to the bottom button which was set to go “forward” – handy for Internet work, but I kept pushing it accidentally so I had to turn it off.

Within a week, my wrist pain was gone. And I mean gone! I can even do push ups without holding onto hand weights to keep my wrists straight. And when I get my massage (ahhhhh – heaven) I don’t have a big knot in my forearm anymore. It’s a miracle!!

Bottom line – if you’re having pain in your mousing arm or wrist – give this mouse a try. And let me know if it helps you as much as it did me.

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  1. Melodee Melodee on 2009-08-19 10:36 am

    Update on my new mouse! Kenny from Evoluent emailed me with some great tips:

    “You are gripping it too firmly, perhaps because the pointer sensitivity is set too high. Go to Control Panel, Mouse, and reduce the pointer speed. Be sure to check the box for Enhance pointer precision.

    There is no need to deliberately grab the mouse. Relax your hand and fingers. The natural tendency of the fingers to curl inward is enough to hold the mouse. Once you relax your fingers, you will no longer be pressing the buttons accidentally. Likewise, you cannot fully rest your fingers on a regular mouse either, otherwise you will also press the buttons by accident. You must keep your fingers suspended above the buttons.”

    I’ve turned the bottom button back on and it’s working like a charm :-)

  2. Himaya Himaya on 2009-08-21 4:37 am

    hmmm, i think ill get one! :D thanks!