Somewhere is the many paragraphs of typing he did for this article, he mentions that perhaps fixing the psychological component improves the physical condition. His idea is that mental stress over RSI restricts bloodflow to the parts of the hands/arms that need blood.
While I don't buy into this article's theory, I do think that the mind is tightly coupled to the body and that people who draw too many distinctions between the two are misguided. That said, I still seek out good ergonomics personally and think RSI, at least for me, is due to me typing for 12 hours a day. I never worried about RSI until I had pain in my hands the went on for weeks. We can debate until the cows come home about whether the mental stress caused the hand pain or whether the ergonomics caused it--in the end it's the same pain and same RSI and just semantics. If wearing wrist pads eliminates the pain or if telling yourself to not worry makes the pain go away--the physical and mental result is the same. For me, wristpads worked. But I know from experience that stress on the mind and stress on the body is basically the same in many regards.
While I don't buy into this article's theory, I do think that the mind is tightly coupled to the body and that people who draw too many distinctions between the two are misguided. That said, I still seek out good ergonomics personally and think RSI, at least for me, is due to me typing for 12 hours a day. I never worried about RSI until I had pain in my hands the went on for weeks. We can debate until the cows come home about whether the mental stress caused the hand pain or whether the ergonomics caused it--in the end it's the same pain and same RSI and just semantics. If wearing wrist pads eliminates the pain or if telling yourself to not worry makes the pain go away--the physical and mental result is the same. For me, wristpads worked. But I know from experience that stress on the mind and stress on the body is basically the same in many regards.