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Add another malady to the growing list of debilitating tech afflictions. Not only do some scientists still warn of cell phone-related brain disorders, but some are attributing another injury to mobile phones: cell elbow. (Or should we say cellbow? You heard it here first.)
According to HealthDay.com, cubital tunnel syndrome (as it's more properly known) involves "numbness, tingling and pain in the forearm and hand caused by compression of the ulnar nerve," all of which comes from extended periods of holding a phone to your ear. Keeping your arm locked in a phone-holding pose can decrease blood flow, which corresponds with swelling and tightening of the nerve. That can eventually lead to muscular atrophy, loss of coordination and mobility, and finger deformities.
With cellbow, Wii-itis, texting thumb, gaming sores, and deformed digits, it seems our arms don't stand a chance against the gadget invasion. Hopefully, someone will make bionic arms readily available and affordable in the near future. Notwithstanding the awesome factor of being able to throw a football a quarter mile, we wouldn't have to worry about our arms to the point of turning into that lame Bluetooth guy. [From: HealthDay via LiveScience]
Teen Texting Craziness
Syracuse University professor Laurence Thomas made news last year for walking out of the classroom whenever his students disobeyed his "no texting in class" rule. Wouldn't the kind of student who would text in class be happy to have class canceled?
In January, 13-year-old Californian Reina Hardesty sent 14,528 text messages from her cell phone. Fortunately for her daddy, he had her on an unlimited text plan.
Two high school cheerleaders in Seattle were suspended from school in December when school officials found out that they had taken nude pictures of themselves on their cell phones and, mistakenly or not, wound up with them circulating through the football locker room. The girls' parents have filed suit against the school. You'd think they would just let the embarassment die quietly.
In December, while on a class trip (according to an Internet rumor anyway), the above message appeared on 18-year-old Elizabeth Frisinger's phone after mistakenly texting her dad, back home in Cleveland, that she'd just lost her virginity. Whoops!
Outdoing Reina Hardesty, 15-year-old Ohioan Paige Hornev averages 15,000 text messages a month. That comes out to the impressive, or pitiful, average of 500 text messages a day.
Thinking about Emily Jenning's texting abilities just makes our thumbs hurt. The Vancouver, British Columbia teen pumped out an absurd 41,600 text messages in the course of a single month -- we did some quick calculations and that works out to about one text every minute.
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Subscribe to commentssjb11767Jun 3rd 2009 11:59AM
Hey There!
I've heard the Optomitrist have been looking at a new eye disease called "Laptopeyetis" so have your glasses checked!
Bud
NicoleJun 3rd 2009 12:34PM
Yeah right. The things they come up with these days. Sure people spend more time on their cell phones. But, um, I DO believe people spent copious amounts of time on the regulare telephone over the last 100 or so years! So what was it before the cell phone, Telbow?
Just another ridiculous name for something that probably happens to 1% of the entire North American population. More fodder for the whiners.