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MOBILE phones have created a new illness dubbed texting tendinitis
General practitioner Robert Menz reported the case of a 13-year-old girl who walked into his surgery earlier this year with a swollen right forearm.
"There was no history of trauma, or recalled change of activity," Dr Menz wrote in the Medical Journal of Australia.
"Further enquiry revealed that she had been given a mobile phone in December."
Dr Menz said the teenager's plan allowed $100 credit that had to be used in a month, equating to nearly 300 SMS messages, or 10 a day.
"The phone and plan allowed up to 760 characters per message, instead of the usual 160," he said.
"The patient had been using only her right thumb to press the keypad."
Dr Menz diagnosed texting tendinitis which settled rapidly with rest, application of naproxen gel twice daily for two days and the use of both hands to operate the keypad of her phone.
"To my knowledge, this is the first report of this condition in Australia," he wrote.
"Perhaps the manufacturers of mobile phones should include health warnings of the risk of overuse injury as part of product labelling."
credits :: News.au
MOBILE phones have created a new illness dubbed texting tendinitis
General practitioner Robert Menz reported the case of a 13-year-old girl who walked into his surgery earlier this year with a swollen right forearm.
"There was no history of trauma, or recalled change of activity," Dr Menz wrote in the Medical Journal of Australia.
"Further enquiry revealed that she had been given a mobile phone in December."
Dr Menz said the teenager's plan allowed $100 credit that had to be used in a month, equating to nearly 300 SMS messages, or 10 a day.
"The phone and plan allowed up to 760 characters per message, instead of the usual 160," he said.
"The patient had been using only her right thumb to press the keypad."
Dr Menz diagnosed texting tendinitis which settled rapidly with rest, application of naproxen gel twice daily for two days and the use of both hands to operate the keypad of her phone.
"To my knowledge, this is the first report of this condition in Australia," he wrote.
"Perhaps the manufacturers of mobile phones should include health warnings of the risk of overuse injury as part of product labelling."
credits :: News.au
Seriously, that name is retarded
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