Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI suspect what's happening with all the people who this works for is that given there are some people who have a psychological component to their pain and some who have a mostly physical component. Even if there are far fewer suffering from the psychological version, they are the ones who physical treatment will fail for. So they will be the ones that get as far as trying the pseudosciencey approach to dealing with the pain. So the mind body…
Chiropractor, Hand Surgeons, Acupuncture, Massage... what's missing here is a physiotherapist. My girlfriend suffered from career threatening RSI (though RSI is actually a pretty useless term, since it works as an umbrella term for dozens of completely different possible problems). We found her a physio but they didn't really help. Then we found her an excellent physio (recommended by numerous friends) who spent 6 months fixing her. She can now type for 7 hours a day, provided she has at…
The biological psychiatry standpoint is increasingly that chronic pain is misperception on the part of the brain. Antidepressants help.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 207
- Total comments
- 155
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-04-16 | How I Cured my RSI PainFirst breakout | prakash | 99 | 75 |
| 2013-07-24 | How I Cured my RSI Pain (2010)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | vsbuffalo | 106 | 79 |
| 2016-09-09 | (2010) How I Cured My RSI Pain | swah | 2 | 1 |