The Ring-Pen fits your hand comfortably,
and, unlike other pens, doesn't require a 3-finger grip!
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Ordinary cylindrical pen:
design that has existed since 4000 B.C.
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Ring-pen:
new aproach in history
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 Favorably reviewed by
the Arthritis Foundation
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Probability of
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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No
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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RING-PEN FEATURES:
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Reduce fatigue while writing and renders the writing more rapid and even.
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Perfect for anyone who writes: students, teachers, secretaries, office
workers, accountants, etc.
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Facilitating considerably the hand writing process for senior citizens
suffering from arthritis or stiffness of the fingers.
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Why the RING-PEN ?
"This is the first letter
I have been able to write
in several years… Thank you
for helping out and
for creating a writing instrument
I can use”
Attorney from Chicago
(for several years he has had a
disease that has
prevented him from writing. He ordered
the Ring-Pen. And now he can write
again!)
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you write a lot and for a long time with a cylindrical pen - no
doubt there is a blister on your middle finger. You may ask any student
or journalist - they will tell how their hand hurts and grows numb after
speedy or continuous writing.
You may ask elderly people and they will tell you how difficult
it is to hold the pen while writing. |
The joints ache and the fingers' flexibility
is not the same as it used to be. The handwriting is unstable.
What happens when somebody writes for a long time, works on a
keyboard, or engraves or cuts with a knife? When
work activities and hobbies require repetitive wrist or finger motion,
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome can occur (In the past, CTS was called
writer's cramp). |
In today's modern postindustrial society,
the potential for development of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is everywhere.
In fact, 25% of all computer operators, and those who write a lot (students,
secretaries, bookkeepers, etc.) reportedly are inflicted with CTS and those
estimates could increase to 50% by the year 2000.
Most only deal with the symptoms, after the problem
has already arisen - like closing the stable-door after your horse has
run away. Only 23% of all carpal tunnel patients are able to return to
their profession following surgery, and 36% of all carpal tunnel patients
need unlimited medical treatment (See
Fig). CTS is a debilitating disease that has produced a lot of pain. |
Also known as tardy median nerve palsy,
CTS is a mechanical malfunction of the hand and wrist, stemming from repetitive
movement that shortens the size of the thenar muscles in the hand and wrist.
This shortening of the thenar muscles causes CTS because it puts adverse
stress on the median nerve.
How does repetitive stress develop? In
the beginning, one feels numbness and tingling in the hands, a sensation
similar to hitting one's funny bone, except the pain stays around constantly.
Not only is the pain constant, but it gets progressively worse. Setting
on slowly at first, the pain awakens one at night. Then, with continued
repetitiveness, it happens with alarming frequency. The pain continues
to progress until one is unable to move the wrists. |
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year, an estimated one in eight U.S. workers will suffer from repetitive
stress injuries, with a total cost to industry of $100 billion. OSHA estimates
that repetitive stress accounts for 60 percent of all workplace injuries.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is spreading across
the U.S. in epidemic proportions,
with 8 million Americans currently affected.
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Everybody writes...
Is
it possible to avoid CTS or prevent its onset in old age?
Yes it is. If there is no need to
squeeze a pen while writing,
there is no static finger muscle tension.
Is it possible to make the writing process
fast and easy
while the pen is stable in the hand ?
Yes, it is. If the center of gravity
of the pen coincides with the point of
support, minimal efforts are applied to control
it.
And is it possible to join all these features
in one writing device?
Yes, it is. All these features are
in the RING-PEN.
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1992-2000 ©
For licensing/distributing
rights/etc., contact: ringpen@ringpen.itgo.com
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