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writer's cramp

noun as in pain from much writing

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Housemaid’s knee, tennis elbow, writer’s cramp, potter’s wrist and other afflictions are much older than iPad neck, but they all have similar causes.

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Remove Cavity Sam’s funny bone, Charlie horse or writer’s cramp with a pair of electro-probe tweezers without lighting up his bright red nose.

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There is the Indy 500 parade on Saturday and a morning autograph session where he is likely to develop writer's cramp.

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If Girardi wielded such power in his current job, he would get writer’s cramp from compiling a list of all the matters that need redress: a faulty offense, a growing list of injuries and the puzzling decline of Luis Severino.

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He had succumbed to what doctors call focal dystonia, golfers call the yips, and instrumentalists and scribblers, respectively, call musician’s cramp and writer’s cramp.

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