The fight against Corona has shifted work to the home office for months for many people.

This is not infrequently the kitchen or living room table.

However, temporarily equipped workplaces are usually not very ergonomic.

Apart from the often incorrect sitting posture, prolonged, monotonous movements put too much strain on the muscles and tendons of the hand, elbow and shoulder area.

At some point every click of the mouse hurts, the arm hurts, but more often the entire neck and shoulder area, sometimes the back.

Experts speak of the Repetitive Strain Injury Syndrome (RSI syndrome), also known somewhat misleadingly as the mouse arm in German-speaking countries. "The generic term RSI includes various clinical pictures from the hand to the elbow to the shoulder and the shoulder blade, which are caused by chronic, monotonous stress," says senior physician Kathi Thiele from the Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery at the Charité University Medicine Berlin. Which complaints - individually or sometimes at the same time - can occur and how you can become pain-free again: