I've been a working journalist for nearly 15 years, and for me that translates to hundreds of hours spent typing on laptops. Fold in the thousands of hours I've spent clutching video game controllers over my lifetime and you get a good recipe for serious hand and wrist pain.
I know because sometime in my mid-30s I started noticing sore hands that wouldn't go away even after a good night's sleep, and within a year of that first twinge I developed an exciting assortment of aches and pains all up and down my arms.
