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It's because it works.

I had completely debilitating RSI where I could only use one hand at a time to type for 15m at a time before I had shooting pain all the way up my arm to my shoulder. His solution (which admittedly does sound like new-agey bullshit) took me from that to zero pain in 3 weeks. I have no idea if his syndrome exists or not, but his solution worked for me which is really all that matters.

Granted, I did not do an in-depth look into the evidence backing his arguments but I did find the argument of referred pain to be compelling, if not robustly proven. (e.g. the lack of existence of RSI in the time of typewriters, the increase in incidence of ulcers as soon as they were tied to stress by medical literature, physical back pain manifesting in some but not others with the same physical symptoms showing in MRI, etc)




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