Is RSI Caused by Anatomical Differences?
2004-Aug-18 (Updated 2004-Sept-11) It’s been nine years now since I started getting RSI symptoms in my left hand… and seven years since I had surgery that sort-of worked. My symptoms disappeared immediately after the surgery but resurfaced after a few weeks. In retrospect, I think the surgery was necessary and successful, but I also needed to remove adhesions at the nerve, near the elbow. Other literature has suggested that adhesions are likely at the intersections of nerves with other tissues. I distinctly remember my surgeon mentioning in the moments after the operationmoments in which I was semi-concious as the general anesthesia wore offthat some peculiar ligament (Stephen’s Ligament?) was in the path of my ulnar nerve. I often thought of that comment, but not until a few days ago did I ever see a reference to the ligament, which I now know, from a Web page I stumbled across, is the Ligament of Struthers. This discovery, on top of a previous item I read, a chapter of the book, “R
