Many smartphone users experience pain in the thumb/wrist. This pain can be due to certain types of hand injuries as well as inflammation of the extensor pollicis brevis and the abductor pollicis longus tendon sheaths, known as De Quervain tenosynovitis. The objective of this study was to ...
onset, and outcomes of MSK pain and conditions in nine body regions (the neck, shoulder, upper back, elbow, wrist/hand, low back, hip/thigh, knee, ankle/foot) over the preceding 12 month period, the last four weeks, and on the day of administration...
Over usage of smartphones can actually impair the hand function by causing pain in the thumb and lowering the pinch strength [36]. Almost 33.8% of subjects in this study complained of physical pain in the wrist, back or neck. All these striking conclusions reveal that there is a clear ...
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found that musculoskeletal pain in the dorsum, neck, wrist and hand was very common among smartphone addicts (Mustafaoglu et al., 2021). Ahmed et al. found that excessive use of smartphone was associated with pain in the neck and thumb (Ahmed et al., 2021). There have also been studies...
The repeated movement of typing with thumbs can cause thumb and wrist pain and lead to the loss of grip strength (握力受损).To avoid this, do this exercise: put a rubber band around the tips of your five fingers and open your hand to stretch the rubber band. Repeat this a few times....
The diagnosis for the bilateral wrist pain was WhatsAppitis. The treatment consisted of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and complete abstinence from using the phone to send messages. Because of her pregnancy, the patient only took acetaminophen (1 g every 8 h for 3 days) with partial ...
The use of smartphones has become widely popular, especially among young people, for multiple purposes other than communication, including gaming and internet browsing. The hand and wrist weakness is one of the main complications associated with the increased use of smartphones. This weakness occurs...
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Text clawisn’t a medical term (yet) but its symptoms are very real. Sufferers experience cramped fingers, wrist pain and muscle pain thanks to continuous texting and scrolling on the touchscreen of a smartphone. This occursbecause of inflammation in the tendons. It can also exacerbate existing...