trackball mouse

So, I've developed tendonitis, and supposedly trackball mice take off the strain.

I see there are quite a few different designs out there... ones that are large and look more like a control box,

then there are ones that look like mice with a ball in the middle,

and then there are ones that look like mice with the ball on the side, for thumb control.

Who has experience/opinions on what is best for taking strain off your arm? For editing? Etc?

Thanks!

wrist-rest comes before special mice if you haven't tried that already

also get a squeezyball to improve circulation (or what the fuck ever, it certainly helps me...)

yeah, I have a wrist-rest.

do you have enough room on your desk to support your elbow or is it hanging off? I'm in illustrator/indesign/photoshop all day and I switched my desk around to allow elbow support. made a huge difference.

there's also the trackpad alternative. It's not that bad.

I had the second sort, a Logitech too, for my old PC. Even now I still prefer them to 'movable' mice.

I've exclusively used a laptop trackpad at home for about 7 years now, which I'd imagine is worse for you than a mouse, but I haven't noticed anything yet.

I have a squishy wrist-rest at work, which I never thought about at first, but would miss it now.

i grasp the ball with my foreskin for an unprecedented degree of human-computer interface

Never used one of these but I can say this: if I use a mouse for over 2 hours, I start to get a sore wrist. I have a 9x12 wacom tablet, and if I use that (even for just browsing/word document editing and stuff like that) I never, ever get a sore wrist.

And you can get a little bamboo tablet for pretty cheap.

went with the thumb trackball.

feels weird. this will take awhile to get used to...