Active People Have Fewer Repetitive Strains

There are at least two ways to avoid the kind of repetitive strain injuries that are caused by such occupation-related tasks as typing or working an assembly line. One way is to not go to work. The other way, according to research conducted at the University of British Columbia, is to be more active outside of work. The Scientific American reports that when researchers analyzed the causes of work-related RSI by studying data from the 2003 Canadian
Community Health Survey for 58,622 full-time workers between
the ages of 15 and 74 years, they found that  one of the several risk factors was "an inactive leisure life." Read more.