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About ten years ago, I had serious issues with fingers and hands, especially - as I learned - what is called the "emacs pinkie"[1].
I tried various proposals, but what helped me most, was remapping the CTRL-key and switching from QWERTY keyboard layout to a DVORAK keyboard layout.
Additionally, in the last years, I tried to reduce the distances, my fingers are traveling on a keyboard. I achieved this by switchung to a 40%-keyboard. It was a hard time in the beginning, having to memorize so many key-combinations, but its worth it. Especially, on an ordinary keyboard, I could never safely blind-type digits. They are to far away from the baseline. On a 40%-keyboard, having no dedicated keys for digits, but wise combinations, improved my typing speed, when doing f.e. progamming dramatically.
Actually - I found on gemini, quite an interesting post, which is very similar to my story:
Funny, I also switched to a keyboard.io Atreus board, and programmed it to do Dvorak on QWERTY layouts.