{"id":66,"date":"2014-02-17T11:27:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T11:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2017-02-20T14:07:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T03:07:18","slug":"shaking-hands-and-clapping","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rsi.org.au\/index.php\/living-with-rsi\/shaking-hands-and-clapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaking hands and clapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Shaking hands<\/h2>\n<p>Shaking hands with another person can cause a lot of pain. This in itself causes a moral dilemma, you don\u2019t want to be rude by not shaking hands with another person but the pain it causes is considerable enough to cause you anxiety. Again you may not want to tell the person that you cannot shake hands with them because of your condition. Some pointers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t worsen your condition just to be sociable.<\/li>\n<li>Hold something in your hands so that the other person sees that you can\u2019t shake hands with them or even offer your other hand.<\/li>\n<li>Try coming up with a new idea that doesn\u2019t hurt your arms \u2013 eg touch forefingers or bow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Clapping<\/h2>\n<p>Applauding is another task that can cause pain. Try these instead:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lightly tap your palm with a program.<\/li>\n<li>Whistle or shout \u2018Bravo\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Mime the action instead of actually doing it.<\/li>\n<li>Stamp your feet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">While you&#8217;re here&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While you\u2019re here, how about helping us out with a donation?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\nWe\u2019re a really small organisation doing a really big job. We give people with RSI across Australia the info they need to get the right treatments, navigate the worker\u2019s compensation system and better manage daily life.<br \/>\nEvery little bit helps \u2013 so make a donation <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.givenow.com.au\/rsiact\">here <\/a>to help us as Australia&#8217;s only RSI support organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaking hands Shaking hands with another person can cause a lot of pain. This in itself causes a moral dilemma, you don\u2019t want to be rude by not shaking hands with another person but the pain it causes is considerable enough to cause you anxiety. Again you may not want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":56,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsi.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsi.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsi.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsi.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsi.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rsi.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/rsi.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/813"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsi.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsi.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}