Recommended Posture and Technique:

• Keep your elbows at your side
• Keep wrist straight
• Avoid contact at the wrist
• Rest the palm of the hand on the mouse
• Move with shoulder and elbow movement
• Hold the mouse lightly
• Click with the pulp of the finger rather than the tip

• Minimize mouse use by implementing keyboard shortcuts.
• Alternate mousing hands to share workload. Change mouse settings to accomodate left handed mousing
  

Risky Posture and Technique

• Reaching to the mouse (elbow away from body side)
• Planting the wrist down
• Pivoting at the wrist (wrist deviation side to side and bent back)
• Pinching the mouse
• Excessive wrist and finger motion to manipulate the mouse

Recommended Resting Positions

• Rest the non-mousing hand
• Rest the mousing hand between clicks and/or mouse manipulation when you stop to read or think.