repetitive stress injury

Cultural  

1. An injury, usually musculoskeletal in nature, that results from continual repetitive motion. There is continued debate about the extent of some of these injuries, exemplified by the continually evolving standards that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has set for their prevention. (See carpal tunnel syndrome.)

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Example Sentences

Nothing says Christmas like a repetitive stress injury?

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2024

I have bounced and bounced and bounced until I got a repetitive stress injury demeaningly known as mother’s thumb, which sounds like something the three witches in “Macbeth” would have used in potions.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2022

Roger, a longtime cashier, had a repetitive stress injury in his right elbow, the joint he had used for years to pull grocery items from the conveyer belt to his right across the digital scanner.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2021

Nursing and holding the baby have caused a repetitive stress injury in her wrist.

From Slate • May 12, 2018

Although some have speculated that the hand pain was the result of repetitive stress injury, or RSI, an injury common among software programmers, Stallman is not 100% sure.

From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam