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S.ravi
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 Posted - 06/13/2009 : 21:00:34
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Beware 'mobile elbow', sawbones warn
Posted in Mobile, 4th June 2009 09:18 GMT
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Doctors have warned that excessive yacking on the mobile can result in "cubital tunnel syndrome", aka "mobile elbow", which could leave you too feeble open a jar of Marmite.
That's because if you have your phone glued to your ear for extended periods, keeping your elbow bent can overstretch and damage the arm's ulnar nerve. This vital piece of kit "extends underneath the funny bone and controls ring and little finger", the Telegraph explains, and if the blood supply is compromised, you'll be alerted by a tingling sensation.
US orthopaedic surgeon Dr Leon Benson warned of comms device-based ulnar nerve abuse, elaborating: "The more you bend it, for example when using a phone, the more it stretches. It diminishes the blood supply, and the blood is not flowing through the nerves.
"While the nerves are designed for stretching, it's not normal to be in a position to be stretched for an hour."
Severe cases of cubital tunnel syndrome may require surgery, but there's a simple solution to less drastic cases of enfeebled, tingling arms: If you're blathering away on the mobile and your ulnar nerve starts to protest, switch hands
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S.ravi
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Posted - 06/13/2009 : 21:02:05
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Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Leon Benson has a warning about your mobile phone use, and it’s not about radiation going into your brain via your ear canal. Rather, it’s about “cubital tunnel syndrome”, otherwise known as “mobile elbow” or “cell phone elbow”.
The problem is that the ulnar nerve, which runs across your elbow, and down to your pinky and ring finger, gets over-stretched, and can have its blood supply restricted, if you are holding a phone to your ear for too long (where, in our estimation, “too long” equals the difference between the amount of time you are behind the wheel, and the amount of time you aren’t using your cell phone while behind the wheel).
Explains Dr. Benson, a professor of orthopedic surgery at Northwestern University School of Medicine, “The more you bend it, for example when using a phone, the more it stretches. It diminishes the blood supply, and the blood is not flowing through the nerves.”
“While the nerves are designed for stretching, it’s not normal to be in a position to be stretched for an hour,” he goes on to say.
While the issue involves the so-called “funny bone”, it’s really no laughing matter. It can be serious enough so as to require surgery.
So the next time that you are talking on the phone, and you get a tingling feeling in your phone-arm or phone-hand, plug in your headset, switch hands, or, hey, hang up!
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S.ravi
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Posted - 06/13/2009 : 21:03:05
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Doctors have warned that excessive yacking on the mobile can result in "cubital tunnel syndrome", aka "mobile elbow", which could leave you too feeble open a jar of Marmite.
That's because if you have your phone glued to your ear for extended periods, keeping your elbow bent can overstretch and damage the arm's ulnar nerve. This vital piece of kit "extends underneath the funny bone and controls ring and little finger", the Telegraph explains, and if the blood supply is compromised, you'll be alerted by a tingling sensation.
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S.ravi
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Posted - 06/14/2009 : 04:59:40
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How your mobile phone can hurt you
14 Jun, 2009, 1134 hrs IST,ANI
Welcome to the world of mobile phones and health perils. The newest affliction of wired age -- mobile phone elbow.
First it was the risk of repetitive strain injury from texting, then came the ‘recall impairment’ from ringtones followed by brain damage. And now, the latest menace of the wired age is being described as “mobile phone elbow”.
According to health experts, mobile users who hold the phone to their ear for prolonged periods are at risk of developing the painful condition in their arm. By bending their elbow too tightly, and for too long, they could overextend the ulnar nerve, which runs from the elbow to control our ring and little fingers, reports The Daily Express.
As well as being painful, this can lead to tingling or numbness from the elbow to the fingers.
Sufferers of the condition can find it difficult to perform tasks, such as opening jars, and may need anti-inflammatory injections or even surgery. Orthopaedic specialists in the US say they are seeing increasing numbers of patients with the condition.
As for advice to fight the “elbow”, experts suggest mobile users to switch the handset from hand to hand every often.
Dr Peter Evans, director of a hand clinic in Cleveland, US, said: “Women tend to get it more, not because they talk longer but because of hormonal fluctuations in their body.”
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S.ravi
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Posted - 06/14/2009 : 20:19:55
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health, mobile phones, ear, arm, elbow, pain, continued use
Posted: Thursday , Jun 04, 2009 at 1341 hrs IST
The latest menace of the wired age is being described as ‘mobile phone elbow’.
Welcome to the world of mobile phones and health perils. First it was the risk of repetitive strain injury from texting, then came the ‘recall impairment’ from ringtones followed by brain damage. And now, the latest menace of the wired age is being described as “mobile phone elbow”.
According to health experts, mobile users who hold the phone to their ear for prolonged periods are at risk of developing the painful condition in their arm. By bending their elbow too tightly, and for too long, they could overextend the ulnar nerve, which runs from the elbow to control our ring and little fingers, reports The Daily Express.
As well as being painful, this can lead to tingling or numbness from the elbow to the fingers.
Sufferers of the condition can find it difficult to perform tasks, such as opening jars, and may need anti-inflammatory injections or even surgery.
Orthopaedic specialists in the US say they are seeing increasing numbers of patients with the condition.
As for advice to fight the “elbow”, experts suggest mobile users to switch the handset from hand to hand every often.
Dr Peter Evans, director of a hand clinic in Cleveland, US, said: “Women tend to get it more, not because they talk longer but because of hormonal fluctuations in their body.”
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S.ravi
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Posted - 06/14/2009 : 20:21:52
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ow doctors have warned that chatting for extended periods of time can leave you with a new ailment – mobile phone elbow.
Published: 7:00AM BST 04 Jun 2009
Chatting for a long time in that position can restrict the blood supply to the nerve, leading to a tingling sensation. Photo: GETTY Too much mobile phone use can lead to an overextension nerves, and painful condition which leaves a tingling or numb sensation from the elbow to the fingers, according to orthopaedic specialists. They are reporting cases of mobile phone elbow, in which patients damage a main nerve in their arm by bending their elbows too tightly for too long.
When mobile phone users hold the phone to their ears, they stretch the ulnar nerve that extends underneath the funny bone and controls ring and little finger.
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S.ravi
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Posted - 06/20/2009 : 23:24:11
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healthHome News Sport TV&Showbiz Femail Health Science&Tech So are YOU allergic to your iPod? As doctors warn of 'mobile elbow', why high-tech ailments are on the rise
By Vincent Graff
Wired: Your iPod headphones could give you earache
Back in the old days, you knew where you were with illnesses. Too many drinks last night? Well, that explains your splitting headache. Dinner wasn’t cooked properly? Watch out for an upset tummy.
These days, things are more complicated. Every time a gadget arrives, it seems to bring with it a new risk or ailment.
Ever since the Sony Walkman was launched 30 years ago, we’ve known that using headphones excessively can cause deafness.
And last week the Mail revealed that doctors have identified mobile phone elbow, a painful condition that is caused by people bending their arms too tightly and for too long while making phone calls.
So are you allergic to the 21st century? Read our medical guide to the oh-so-modern maladies.
MOBILE ELBOW
Spending hours on your mobile phone can damage the ulnar nerve - the nerve which pings when you hit your funny bone.
If the nerve becomes stretched, the blood supply becomes restricted, causing tingling. If the stretching gets worse, sufferers will be unable to open jars, write or open the battery compartment of their mobile phone to fish out the Sim card.
Orthopaedic surgeons recommend that you switch hands during long phone calls. At its most extreme, mobile elbow can lead to cubital tunnel syndrome (an
inability to grip objects, chronic pain and, in extreme cases, deformity of the little and ring fingers), which can require surgery.
Wrist injury expert Dr Leon Benson, of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, says the elbow and ulnar nerve can get ‘stressed out’ by excessive mobile use.
‘The more you bend it - for example, when using a phone - the more it stresses,’ he says. ‘It diminishes the blood supply, which means the blood is not flowing through the nerves.’
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TEXTER'S THUMB
In the past ten years, there has been a 40 per cent rise in the number of children with a specific type of repetitive strain injury known as texter’s thumb.
Also referred to as Nintenditis, Wii Thumb and iPod Finger, it’s a painful inflammation of the thumb joint and tendons caused by constantly bashing the small buttons on phones or video games.
‘These injuries are amazingly prevalent among young people,’ says chartered physiotherapist Sammy Margo.
‘When I started practising 20 years ago, less than 1 per cent of my caseload were aged under 18. Now up to 20 per cent of my patients are. And very often they are suffering from new conditions such as texter’s thumb.’
WII KNEE
The Wii is an unusual games console because the player does not slump on the sofa, but simulates motions using a hand-held remote.
You can play virtual sports such as tennis and bowling or take part in aerobics sessions and hula-hooping. As a result, Wii has unique injuries.
Wii knee, a painful or sore condition caused by overexertion, was identified by a Leeds hospital after treating a stream of patients with sore knees who had been playing the computer game for long periods of time.
Doctors recommend you warm up before a Wii game in much the same way you would before a real tennis match.
WII SHOULDER
This painful inflammation is a muscular skeletal injury seen in patients whose only exercise is in front of their games console.
It was identified in the British Medical Journal 18 months ago by Dr Andrew Cowley, a consultant paediatrician at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
‘It was just after Christmas and I asked a patient complaining of a painful shoulder: were you given a Wii? He had,’ says Dr Cowley.
The patient was prescribed a two-week break from the game - and the pain vanished.
‘Since I wrote about the Wii Shoulder, I’ve heard from lots of other doctors who have had patients with Wii-related injuries,’ says Dr Cowley.
Time for a quick dose of Wiihab, perhaps?
PLAYSTATION PIMPLE
Overuse of video games can lead to a condition known as neutrophilic hidradenitis - painful red lesions on the hands.
The condition was first reported in the British Journal of Dermatology in 2007.
‘This is a condition in which the white blood cells attack the sweat glands,’ says Dr Behrooz Kasraee, consultant dermatologist at the Geneva University Hospital.
‘It’s more often seen on the feet of marathon athletes and tennis players, but I have also seen it on a young patient who used a PlayStation for just two hours a day.’
The condition cleared up when the 12-year-old stopped playing with the gadget.
‘It may be that it was causing her to sweat excessively,’ says Dr Kasraee.
PHONE INFERTILITY
Scientists at the Reproductive Research Centre in Cleveland, Ohio, looked at men in India, where mobile phones are not yet as common as in the U.S. and Europe.
They found that those who used mobile phones for more than four hours a day had lower sperm counts than men who did not use them at all.
‘On all four parameters - sperm count, motility (the ability to move towards the egg), viability (the proportion of active sperm) and morphology (the shape and size of the sperm) - there were significant differences,’ says Professor Ashok Agarwal.
MOUSE SHOULDER
The next time you are working on your computer, look down at your desk and imagine it’s a restaurant table.
Is your mouse where your drinking glass would be? Well, it should be where your knife or fork go.
Using the mouse in the wrong position could give you muscle spasms in the middle of your back or under your shoulder.
‘Physiotherapists are seeing this injury time and time again,’ says Sammy Margo.
So stop slumping and sit up straight!
iPOD EARACHE
Researchers in India have discovered that people who use headphones regularly to listen to music have thousands of times more bacteria in their ears than the rest of us.
Bud earphones - the type found on iPods - form a plug over the ear, creating a warm, moist atmosphere that bugs love. This can lead to earache.
The solution: don’t share your iPod earphones.
Another study claimed that up to 10 per cent of MP3 player owners risk deafness if they listen to music for more than an hour a day.
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