Texting Tenosynovitis, a new condition to text addicts
Another first in New Zealand, but this one is not to be celebrated for. A student, and a text addict I assume, that sends up to 100 text messages a day on her mobile phone has been diagnosed with texting tenosynovitis.
The 20-year-old has texting tenosynovitis, an inflammation of the tendons in the thumb caused by constant text messaging.
There have been only two other reported cases of the ailment – a school-aged child in Singapore and a 13 year-old girl in Australia.
Source: The Brisbane Times
This is a news to warn those who spends so much time texting, specially here in the Philippines, where there are hundreds of text addicts. Since the condition, carpal tunnel became widespread when people begun using computers in their everyday lives. Now there are more and more mobile users prone to the new ailment, texting tenosynovitis.
[via textually.org]
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