Repetitive stress injuries don’t always arrive with a single dramatic moment. More often, they show up as a pattern:
- symptoms worsen after certain shifts or tasks (after a specific workflow, not randomly)
- tingling/numbness comes and goes, then sticks
- grip strength drops or you start dropping items
- pain migrates—wrist to forearm, shoulder to neck—especially during high-production periods
In Wake Forest, many people work in environments where pace and output matter—warehouse and logistics operations, maintenance roles, healthcare support, and office jobs with long stretches on computers. If your symptoms track with those demands, it’s worth treating it as a potential claim-worthy injury, not something to simply “push through.”


