Doctors warn of ‘mobile phone elbow’

First there was a risk of repetitive strain injury from texting, and now doctors have warned that chatting for extended periods of time can leave you with a new ailment – mobile phone elbow.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.To read this report from London’s Daily Telegraph in full, see:
www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5439991/Doctors-warn-of-mobile-phone-elbow.html