'Teen Texting Tendonitis' the Latest Health Epidemic

"Teen Texting Tendonitis... a fancy name for sore thumbs." Wow, way to name an illness after teens. "Teens text way too much." Not all teens text a lot! I know A LOT of adults who text non-stop. Most of their thumbs are soar too. Instead of "Teen Texting Tendonitis" why not call it "Texting Tendonitis". Adults were teens once too you know!!!

By the states record for stupidity I assume you are referring to the contributions made by such Texans as Walter Cronkite, or Dan Rather. You could also be refereing to the Stupidity of Phill Gramm or even Lyndon Baines Johnson. Then there is the stupidity of all of those at the Alamo who stood strong to prevent themselves, and your precious home state(wherever that is) from becoming part of Mexico. Or perhaps it was the stupidity of the likes of Chester William Nimitz, and Howard Hughes. Then there is always the Stupidity of the musician crowd Like Buddy Holly, Jack Johnson, Janis Joplin, ZZ Top, Roy Orbison, or Bob wills. Maybe even the idiotic actions of Roger Staubach, Don Meredith, or Nolan Ryan. Or it may just be the Stupidity of supplying the rest of you cotton, beef, and oil. Possibly my favorite is the stupidity of allowing a bunch of Yankees to move in and start drilling for our natural gas to provide power to the rest of the country. KEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL.....PUT A YANKEE ON A BUS!!!!

are we supposed to feel bad for her or any person (teens) that "develop" this issue? How about the parent taking the damn phone away instead of just giggling about 'uncovering a problem'... and not to mention that the entire time they are waiting for the doctor, the girl has the damn phone in her hands... WAKE UP LADY!!!! And let me guess, there will soon be law suits against phone companies for "causing injuries"... People have been dumbing down for a long time and now texting has begun to encourage that. We wonder why kids today LACK communication skills and can't articulate anything.

i only text when i'm at home and am totally bored. my sister texts like all the time and it gets really annoying. like we'll go out for a family dinner and she'll pull her phone out and be texting in the restaurant. or if i have a friend over and then they are pulling their phone out every couple minutes texting people, how rude is that? it's like, if you'd rather sit there and talk to somebody else instead of hanging out with me then just leave. i love texting because i hate to call people, but some people just take it alittle far.

She has a serious problem that, from where I'm standing, looks like an addiction. I think her parents should monitor her texting instead of publicizing her problem.

Yesterday, I almost killed a boy on a bike, TEXTING,
I was more upset than he was.. Maybe they should be getting a $50.00 ticket when the cops see them, and they must see them!!!!
Get with it, parents . Well, they still use cell phones driving.
I could stand on a corner and get 50 tickets an hour, if they enforced it.
That would raise a lot of money for our ailing towns economy!!!!!!

Being a teen myself, this bothers me. ._.
I mean, did they SERIOUSLY have to give it a frickin' name?!
I used to text often, and my thumbs never hurt.
Adults don't exactly understand us....
And unless there's actual teens typing this out, I don't buy any of this shit.

patient: It really hurts when I punch myself in the face

doctor: stop punching yourself in the f-ing face

what a retarded story, this is the problem with 24/7 news

leewillijr ... As a fellow Texan myself. Hats off to you. Good job.

I think that each generation has their thing. Decades ago kids were eating goldfish. I think this is just a cultural thing that kids can do in private. No one can hear what they are saying on their cell phone. would I ever text? no. would I allow my kid to text, I would work hard to limit it Regardless of each generations oddities, many grow up to be responsible good citizens. As for the first post about Texans, well thats just plain mean. Its folks like that who do not grow up to be responsible good citizens. Unless they can find a way to heal that meanness. That is a much bigger health concern than tendonitis.

aw man Rick got real quite when every body hopped on him for his spelling and dissing of Texas. GO TEKSUS! WOO

do we really need a news article and video segment on cnn to tell us that texting can cause thumb problems? i think its pretty insulting to my intelligence that they think we dont already know this ...

What parent in their right mind would bring there child to the ER or Dr because they had sore thumbs. Are you serious? You have got to be kidding. And they are gonna name a syndrome after this? We are weak and pathetic beings. If I were the Dr. I would send them out of my ER quick as rain. And any parent who allows there child to send 40,000 text messages in a month and be billed for it....this is why our youth are so weak and pathetic. Are we gonna start texting the Russians in 20 years, or how about the Iraqi's...let's text them that we are gonna declare war on them. what a friggin joke these people are. I am startint to think twice about AOL as my ISP, I mean this should be an entertainlment story not front page news. I got a blister playing golf the other day, I knew I should have went to ER.....maybe my insurance would pay for my time off....

i just checked and i have sent 9682 texts in one month and the month isn't even over yet ! but my fingers don't hurt at all maybe jus from cracking my knuckles but not my thumbs .