Moll - The pain is not associated with my typing skills, and I frequently use the numbers on the main keyboard, having trained as a typist. Trouble is, it takes two hands and usually my left hand is engaged with the mouse at work, it being the nature of the way our computer programmes accept information (type in number, click mouse box, type in another number, click mouse box... get the idea? Designed for right-handed people). I'd use the arrow keys to move my mouse but guess what... they're on the right hand side of the keyboard! It can't be my working practices, I haven't done any for weeks! (Joke!)

I have not changed my footwear - indeed, 75% of the time I'm barefoot, winter and summer. I don't recall any other injuries in the last 2 months.

Micca does do massage but frankly, I'd prefer the 22yr old, just so long as the six-pack is Tanglefoot.

To get a referral to an osteo or physioterrorist takes time when you can't pay, unless I can prove it happened as a result of my working practice - and even then I have to be risk assessed and a whole heap of other H&S stuff to make sure I'm following the rules. Trouble is, they keep changing the rules and not telling us. It's now no longer acceptable to have your thighs parallel to the desk and your hips at 90degrees. No-one told me I'd been sitting wrongly for 8 years!

LTS