Stretching exercises to prevent RSI

Stretching animations

These animated gifs are borrowed from the
New Zealand Occupational Safety and Health Service,
through Paul Marxhausen's R.S.I. page. It may not be wise to access these over the web, but rather save the animated gifs to your own machine and view them later. To do this, click on the right mouse button when you are on the gif-name you would like to save. Also, Paul says: "Don't do these at the speed displayed. Easy does it."

direct access	gif to save
arm swings	s_as.gif
wrist flicks	s_wf.gif
shoulder rotations	s_sr.gif
full-arm turns	s_ft.gif
chin tilts	s_ct.gif
hand crunches	s_he.gif
head twists	s_ht.gif
shoulder pulls	s_sp.gif
turning wrist circles	s_t_wc.gif
neck tilts	neck.gif

Still pictures of more stretches

Again from the New Zealand OSH, some pictures of more stretches.

Specifically for when you're at your computer

From Stretching Inc. Online, from their book, a page of online stretches. This is a bad picture; even worse than on their own site...

onlinestretches.gif

There are loads of RSI pages on the web. Here are a few I found:
Paul Marxhausen's R.S.I. Page
David Ruegg - Repetitive Strain Injury
RSI-UK
Deborah Quilter's www.RSIHelp.com^sm