I’m starting to thing today’s youngsters need to do wrist exercises, not only because of the time spent at computers these days, but for the time spent emailing and texting friends from our beloved smartphones. Take today’s case-in-point, 16-year-old Annie Levitz from Mundelein, Illinois. The teenager had been feeling numbness and pain in her hands, and after a recent visit to a doctor, was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome. At 16 years of age. Good grief. The result of the diagnosis was hand braces for each hand, plus cortisone injections.
Annie has managed to ‘trim’ down her texting habits from around 4,000 text messages a month down to 2,000. While I’m not about to give Annie a high-five for her efforts (2,000 is still a whackload of texts, and I wouldn’t want to hurt her wrists), she believes a cure is on the horizon. The cure? An iPhone.
‘I do think that since it’s touch it won’t be as rough on my hands’
I have a better idea. Take the darn smartphone out of her no doubt crab-like clutches. Annie, if you want to spare yourself a lifetime of pain and ache, it may be time to go cold turkey… at least for a little while.
[Via: cnet]