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Repetitive Stress Injury. I can never emphasize this enough, doing the same thing over and over again can be hazardous to your life. Mouse users beware of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Too much tennis, Tennis Elbow. Constant staring at computer screens-- Dry Eye Syndrome. Overdose on cardio exercises without conditioning, you get Runner's knee and all other kind of lower extremity problems.And if you use handphone too much, you get SMS-thumb.
Beside clinching the world's fastest SMS record, Singapore is again in the world's limelight when a school girl here became one of the first three patients in the world to be diagnosed with SMS-thumb, aka texting tenosynovitis. Repetitively punching on tiny buttons cause friction to the tendon and its covering, leading to inflammation of muscles of the thumb, giving rise to this agonising painful condition.
Like other overuse injury, sms-thumb can be treated and the first step is to stop the offending activity so as to prevent further aggravation, in this case stop sms-ing (or at least use the other thumb!). Medication may be prescribed as a follow-up measure and the patient may be given an injection into the tendon to ease the inflammation pain, along with home stretching and technique analysis and re-training. In severe cases, the tendon may need to be surgically released to relieve symptoms.
This condition is getting so widespread, especially among the young generation, that prompted Singapore Polytechnic to conduct a study to understand more about the physiology of sms-ing. It will measure the force and motion of the thumb and fingers used in SMS. But before any useful data can be used to advise you on which phone model is more "thumb-friendly", choose phones with big round buttons, as it has been observed that small or square buttons tend to strain your thumb more. Plugging in a keyboard to replace the tiny buttons, or switching to PDA phone might help too. Of course cutting down sms-ing not only will cut your cost, but will definitely be good to prevent yourself from getting a sms-thumb too.
Beside clinching the world's fastest SMS record, Singapore is again in the world's limelight when a school girl here became one of the first three patients in the world to be diagnosed with SMS-thumb, aka texting tenosynovitis. Repetitively punching on tiny buttons cause friction to the tendon and its covering, leading to inflammation of muscles of the thumb, giving rise to this agonising painful condition.
Like other overuse injury, sms-thumb can be treated and the first step is to stop the offending activity so as to prevent further aggravation, in this case stop sms-ing (or at least use the other thumb!). Medication may be prescribed as a follow-up measure and the patient may be given an injection into the tendon to ease the inflammation pain, along with home stretching and technique analysis and re-training. In severe cases, the tendon may need to be surgically released to relieve symptoms.
This condition is getting so widespread, especially among the young generation, that prompted Singapore Polytechnic to conduct a study to understand more about the physiology of sms-ing. It will measure the force and motion of the thumb and fingers used in SMS. But before any useful data can be used to advise you on which phone model is more "thumb-friendly", choose phones with big round buttons, as it has been observed that small or square buttons tend to strain your thumb more. Plugging in a keyboard to replace the tiny buttons, or switching to PDA phone might help too. Of course cutting down sms-ing not only will cut your cost, but will definitely be good to prevent yourself from getting a sms-thumb too.
