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I use the SafeType keyboard, and I like it very much. I have thumb arthritis in both my thumbs, and I have trouble with my neck and shoulders as well.
Before I got the SafeType, I used Microsoft 4000 keyboard. I might have stayed with that keyboard had it not been for the fact that the keyboard kept breaking down, requiring replacement every 6-9 months or so, and my neck, shoulders, and upper back screamed with pain. If I couldn't find an answer to the neck and shoulder pain, I would have had to drop out of Andrews and given up on MT work.
Since I have been using the SafeType keyboard, my thumb arthritis is not an issue. The turning the the hands necessary for most other keyboards does not happen, and I notice no pain from the wrists and thumbs. Likewise, my neck and shoulder pain has gone away as well.
Will it help the OA pain in your hands? This I don't know. But what I do know is this: If the pain in your hands (or neck or shoulders)is caused by or magnified because of the pronation of the hands in the use of your current keyboard, this will not happen with the SafeType keyboard.
It completely eliminated the searing pain in my neck, shoulders and upper thoracic spine, and I do not have any stabbing thumb pains anymore either. I have been using this keyboard for just about a year now, and I am extremely happy with my purchase.
Because of the SafeType, I was able to continue with my schooling, graduate from Andrews, and now I am employed as an MT. :)
If I ever got wind that the SafeType was ever going to be discontinued, I would promptly buy 10 or more of them because their resale value would then skyrocket, probably into the quadruple digits.
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I use SafeType. (sm) - Kathleen
