While repetitive stress can affect many parts of the body, Dunwoody cases often come from work patterns that look like this:
- Office and tech roles: heavy mouse/keyboard use, tight productivity targets, long stretches without meaningful posture or workstation adjustments.
- Customer-facing and service work: repetitive scanning, check-in/out tasks, frequent hand motions, and continued work despite early tingling or pain.
- Warehouse/logistics and skilled trades: repeated gripping, tool vibration, lifting in the same awkward positions, and delayed ergonomic changes.
- Driving + desk mix schedules: symptoms that worsen after long commutes and then continue during computer work (a pattern insurers sometimes try to split into “non-work” causes).
If you’ve had numbness, burning pain, reduced grip strength, elbow/forearm soreness, or shoulder/neck tightness that tracks with your work routine, it’s worth getting medical documentation early—both for your health and for your claim.


