Are you a numb thumber?
Smartphones have become a regular part of our daily lives. We use them to text, tweet, and stream videos, and all of this requires the use of our fingers — more often than not, specifically our thumbs.
Nellie Bowles at The New York Times recently published an article called `Me and My Numb Thumb: A Tale of Tech, Texts and Tendons.` In it, Bowles talks about how, as she`s continued to use her phone day after day, she`s discovered a pain in her right thumb. She calls this `a depressingly modern condition in which the tendons around the thumb inflame as a result of repetitive strain,` but one day, it got pretty serious —
Eventually, my right thumb just stopped working. It could not muster the strength to press down on my phone. It was both numb and achy. And the pain that had started in my hand was now shooting down my arm. I had a problem, one I later learned was becoming common.
Bowles says she soon discovered that many of her co-workers and...
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