One thing that may help - well, a couple of things: 1) Get a larger monitor and a highly sensitive mouse. For example, I have a 25" NEC tube and a Diamondback Razer mouse. A mouse with with lots of extra buttons is nice too. 2) In your operating system's mouse settings, crank up the movement sensitivity as high as you can comfortably go. Same with the screen resolution. 3) Get hold of one of those Natural Keyboards. I usually detest Microsoft stuff, but their Natural Keyboard (which is split and funny-looking) is a good product. All of these together do a couple of nice things: * Less movement required on the mouse to get your cursor somewhere (for example, my main monitor has a 1600x1400 rez screen, and I can move the cursor from one corner to its opposite with less than 1/3 of an inch (just under a centimeter) of mouse movement. Less movement = less pain. A more precise mouse allows both finer adjustments, and less bumping and mouncing of the mouse to get the thing exactly where you need it. * The keyboard allows for a more natural curvature of the hands and wrists. The fingers aren't cocked sideways on the keyboard... so less pain there, too. The extra buttons on the mouse can be mapped to key combinations that would otherwise be a PITA on the finger joints. HTH a little, /P