Ask HN: Wrist Pain 17 years ago
I had extremely bad arm and wrist pain back in the late 1990s. I started using a touchpad with my toe because a mouse was too painful. I even dabbled with voice recognition software for programming (pretty inefficient, as you might imagine).
What finally cured me was a physical therapy book called "Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain by Pete Egoscue" (http://amzn.com/0553379887).
This book completely changed my life. The exercise can seem a bit odd, but they worked amazingly well for me. I was almost completely back to normal within a month.