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SR vs straight transcription with arthritis - new diagnosis

Posted: Oct 18, 2013

Is SR easier on your fingers, joints than straight transcription?

TIA.

Not for me, because the placement of fingers - on the function keys SM

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also causes pain with stiffness of holding fingers/wrists/hands in that position all day.

Hurts to move hands across keyboard in straight typing, but is a lesser of two evils for me.

SR Way Easier Physically - see msg

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I rest my fingers very comfortably at all times with SR and have much fewer arthritis symptoms in my fingers with SR.

With SR never use the command keys so - Curious

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I know there is less use of your hands, well with my platform there is because the SR is almost spot on with being correct. I never used the command keys, did not want to and really it makes no difference in what you can do line wise.

Don't get as tired with SR...SM - Old Anon

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I don't get pain with straight typing but my hands and wrists do get tired. I'm much happier with SR.

more pain with SR - OldsterMT

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I get no back pain or wrist/hand pain with traditional keyboarding, although I do have a frozen shoulder and neck tension problems. When I do speech wreck, I have significantly more problems within the first hour of working in this manner, whether I use keyboard functions or the mouse. I will admit that the speech program does a terrible job and there are a huge amount of corrections needed on every report.

more with SR - sunni

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I actually noticed more pain in my fingers and wrists with SR because of heavy use of function keys and more hand movement. with regular typing, my hands stay in one place most of the time.

If the SR worked the way it's supposed to, then - maybe...

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On my SR, my hands are doing keyboard acrobatics, making corrections nonstop throughout the whole report. My hands, wrists, arms and shoulders and brain are exhausted about 4 hours into working.

arthritic typists - OP - thanks all! nm

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