Editing Ergonomic mouse

An '''ergonomic mouse''' is a [[mouse]] that has been designed in ways to avoid mouse-related discomfort and injuries from prolonged use, and/or to provide comfort for people with disabilities (that could have been cased by mouse-related injuries).

All ergonomic mouse are more or less a '''vertical mouse''' or '''semi-vertical mouse''', made to place the user's palm more vertically in order to reduce forearm/wrist pronation.
Many of these have a raised indent for the thumb.
Most vertical mice are for one hand only. Some models exist in both right-hand and left-hand variants.

Some ergonomic mice are elongated to make the user move the mouse with a straight wrist.

The term "ergonomic mouse" has also sometimes been used:
* For other types of pointing devices that may be more ergonomic than a standard mouse, such as [[RollerMouse|roller mice]] and certain [[trackball]]s.
* To describe mice that are designed to merely fit one or the other hand more comfortably, not providing any medical advantage. In other words, just a mouse that is not ambidextrous. This use is more common for "gaming mice" and is universally shunned by human-computer interaction professional and users of ergonomic mice.

==See also==
* [[:Category:Vertical mice]]

==External links==
* Wikipedia—[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse#Ergonomic_mice Ergonomic mice] (section)

[[Category:Pointing device terms]]