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Repetitive Stress Injury (RIS)

Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI) is a condition affecting the musculoskeletal and nervous systems, caused by repetitive tasks, prolonged awkward positions, or mechanical stress. Common causes include extended reading, poor sleeping conditions, carrying heavy items, and improper posture while using devices. Symptoms typically involve sharp pain in the arms, back, and neck, worsened by activity. Treatment options include rest, prescribed therapies, braces, massage, exercise, and in severe cases, surgery. For more insights, visit the Wikipedia page on RSI.

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Repetitive Stress Injury (RIS)

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  1. Repetitive Stress Injury (RIS) Katie Griesbaum EDL 554 90 Lesson 9

  2. What is RIS? • “ RIS is an injury of the musculoskeletal and nervous system that may be caused by repetitive tasks, forceful exertions, vibrations, mechanical compression (pressing against hard surfaces), or sustained or awkward positions. (Wikipidepia)”

  3. Causes of RIS • Reading or doing tasks for extended periods of time while looking down. • Sleeping on an inadequate bed/mattress or sitting in a bad armchair and/or in an uncomfortable position. • Carrying heavy items. • Holding one's phone between neck and shoulder. • Watching TV in incorrect position e.g. Too much to the left/right. • Sleeping with head forward, while traveling. • Prolonged use of the hands, wrists, back, neck, etc.

  4. Symptoms of RIS • Short bursts of excruciating pain in the arm, back, shoulders, wrists, hands, or thumbs (typically diffuse – i.e. spread over many areas). • The pain is worse with activity. • Weakness, lack of endurance.

  5. Treatments of RIS • Rest when the RSI first begins • prescribed treatments • braces and massage • Exercise • Surgery

  6. Recourses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetitive_strain_injury

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