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Keeping your hand ligaments warm is crucial to prevent damage while typing.

There are gaming and compression gloves for this.

That's really interesting, re. ligaments. Can you point to any resources around that, so I can learn more?

There are tons on material connecting cold muscles and ligaments with low blood flow and risks of inflammation. Arthritis, carpal tunnel, RSI etc.

Random links:

https://www.stelizabeth.com/healthyheadlines/cold-weather-an...

https://www.barringtonortho.com/blog/carpal-tunnel-and-cold-...

Those links connect cold with the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome not the cause of it.

Are you saying it increases the risk of injury or just pain?

That's why I clearly wrote that there's a ton of material and that I was sharing 2 random links.

> Are you saying it increases the risk of injury or just pain?

Both. Lowering blood circulation decreases the ability of muscles, ligaments and tendons to self-repair. Among other things, cold lowers blood flow (and viceversa). That's why people warm up before stretching.

I’ve read a lot of conflicting research about warming up before exercise. With evidence it improves, does nothing, or reduces performance depending on the specifics etc.

My intuition is cold hands would be a risk, but I don’t particularly trust such intuition.

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