Instead, I do all sorts of ridiculous exercises at work every hour or two and rub 'Traumed cream' all over my shoulder and take flax seed oil, which if you've never had it, tastes like something squeezed from a dead fish. I used to lift weights, now I go home at night and roll around on a giant Styrofoam log that massages my back. Then I listen to these perfectly nauseating biofeedback tapes to relax and release the blood flow blockages. Even if I gave up writing, I don't know what kind of job I could get that doesn't involve computers, which inevitably involve typing. Typing is the same thing as writing so far as my shoulder is concerned.
Writing is just repetitive stress.
Even if you like your job, basically you get into the same stress over and over again. OSHA is currently working hard to define regulations for ergonomics, which is the science of repetitive stress. The regulations are not meant to include typing, but could be stretched to do so by an imaginative lawyer. But despite the fact that ergonomics might actually reduce the monetary burden on the U.S. businesses' mass pocketbook, these same businesses are fighting against the regulations. Perhaps they would rather get rid of workers' benefits altogether.