{"id":283,"date":"2005-02-09T08:52:19","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T08:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2005\/02\/swapmousebutton\/"},"modified":"2005-02-09T08:52:19","modified_gmt":"2005-02-09T08:52:19","slug":"swapmousebutton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2005\/02\/swapmousebutton\/","title":{"rendered":"SwapMouseButtons and Carpel Tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I repeatedly developed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/carpal+tunnel&amp;r=67\">carpel tunnel<\/a> swelling in my right hand. I switched the mouse to my left hand and that solved the problem. I think keyboarding plus mouse-clicking plus using my right hand for writing all built up too much strain. Switching to my left hand for mousing distributed the work, and I have not had a problem since.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mouseswap.gif\" src=\"\/jeb\/files\/mt\/archives\/mouseswap.gif\" width=\"106\" height=\"84\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At night, I use my laptop keyboard, so I have to become right-handed again. This means twice each day, changing my mouse settings from for the left and right buttons.<\/p>\n<p>A little hotkey utility called <a href=\"http:\/\/members.jcom.home.ne.jp\/mtpsoft\/swapmousebuttons\/SwapMouseButtons.html\">SwapMouseButtons<\/a> solves this problem. This would be good for anyone who switches mouse hands or for a house with right and left-handers who like to move the mouse from one side to another.<\/p>\n<p>It even has an option to make your pointers mirror so they tilt left or right, reminding you which way the mouse is set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I repeatedly developed carpel tunnel swelling in my right hand. I switched the mouse to my left hand and that solved the problem. I think keyboarding plus mouse-clicking plus using my right hand for writing all built up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2005\/02\/swapmousebutton\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}