On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:47:47 GMT, "Tom Gardner"
wrote:

I'll bet he had a lawyer before he had the condition! He says that
setting-up an average of 6 punch presses a week is the cause. Our dies are
simple and average 25 lbs ea. all the clamps are 5/8-11 bolts and the ram
bolts are 3/4"...but rehabing 3 houses didn't cause any problems.

Tom, see if you can get some tips on where this person is working
his second jobs, and get some video footage of him working. Just in
case he tries to come back and fight it, you can show how his
"critical injuries" didn't slow him down at framing a house only days
after he was "suffering so badly." CYA.

I have a friend who is a professional pianist who has had bouts with
CTS that could easily have been career ending. But there is usually a
root cause, and if you fix the cause the problem often gets better or
totally goes away. That is, if the person with the CTS problem
/wants/ to get better, and isn't looking to sue and retire off the
proceeds.

He's had to get insistent about the employer repairing or replacing
the company-owned piano as needed when the action wears out and gets
stiff and sticky (And when the piano gets played 7-days, two shifts,
it keeps a piano technician busy...)

He's had to modify his seating position and motion mechanics to keep
his wrists neutral, and he gets various alternative therapies (cool
light laser and/or somesuch) at the first sign of a problem.

-- Bruce --

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