First Case of “Text Thumb” Discovered

BrianB (1512 days ago)

Texting diseaseA twenty-year-old New Zealander was the third person diagnosed with texting tenosynovitis. Fleur de Vere Beavis sends 100 text messages a day. Two other were diagnosed, one in nearby Austral and the other in Singapore. One important consideration about the disease is that doctors suspect there are many more unreported cases.

Emma Storr and Mark Stringer, who wrote about texting tenosynovitis in a medical journal believes the disease is more common than reports of actual cases indicate.

New Zealanders send 28 million messages a day. The country, which has a population of 4.2 million, owns 4.5 million cell phones.

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Comments (1)

  • 810 days ago

    It is a shame that people have gotten so obbsessed that there is a disease related to it.

    Annonymous

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