 RMI: The Hair Stylist’s Most Painful Problem
| If you’ve worked as a stylist for a few years, you’re probably familiar with Repetitive Motion Injuries (RMI). Chances are, either you or a stylist you know has experienced the two painful—and often career-ending—conditions that comprise RMI: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Tendinitis. Over 42% of the world’s stylists report mild to severe pain in their cutting hand and arm. Of those, 25% end up leaving the profession (10% of stylists worldwide). And the ones who do manage to recover, after six months to a year of treatment, pay a high price—often losing over half their clients, as much as 60% of their income, and facing more than $2,000 in medical bills. |
The Cause of RMI Isn’t a Mystery
It’s the design of traditional hair shears! Traditional shears position your fingers in such a way that they’re misaligned, causing the force each must exert on the finger blade to be different, and that pulls the tendons entering your wrist out of alignment. As you operate the shears, your thumb must move in an up and down motion, exactly opposite from the way it’s naturally designed to move. And your hand is forced into a closed position, which not only elevates internal pressure, it minimizes vascular flow and causes tissues to rub against one another. These design flaws have been known to the cosmetology industry for a long time. Many attempts have been made to correct them, but they’ve all failed. Until now... |
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