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Jena thinks that I do things just to be difficult. She's right, most of the time, but sometimes I do things the weird way for a reason. I switched from QWERTY to Dvorak because my wrists hurt. It seems to have helped, although it sort of killed my QWERTY typing speed, my Dvorak speed is better than my QWERTY was.
Another thing to help my wrists is avoiding the mouse. I notice that when I use the mouse a lot, my wrist hurts. I think it's because of the weird angle the mouse puts my hand in. Well, one way to avoid that situation is to just not use the mouse.
One thing I do is use a tiling window manager, which basically means that there are no floating windows. It's hard to explain, but easy to show. Not something for a casual user, though.
The other thing I do is use Conkeror[1] as my web browser. Imagine Firefox with keybindings for everything (Conkeror used to be a firefox extension, but has grown into it's own browser running on Mozilla's xulrunner). I can browse the internet and almost never touch my mouse. There are little sticking points, but I'm figuring out how to get around them.
Conkeror uses many of the same keybindings as Emacs[2]. Since I practically live in Emacs at work, switching over to Conkeror was easy-peasy. Of course, anybody not familiar with Emacs would have a learning curve, but it's not so bad.
If you find your wrists hurting from using a mouse too much, you might give Conkeror a try. Hit 'ctrl-h i' for the user manual.