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June 2, 2009
Cell Phone Elbow
Sorry the updates have been slow to come, new job, wedding planning, dog ate my homework. So with everything going on from Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings to disappearing airplanes I thought it appropriate to slow things down and concentrate on what issue will impact us on a day to day basis; yep, Cell Phone Elbow.
Orthopedic specialists are reporting cases of “cell phone elbow,” in which patients damage an essential nerve in their arm by bending their elbows too tightly for too long. When cell phone users hold the phone to their ears, they stretch a nerve that extends underneath the funny bone and controls the smallest fingers. When talkers chat for a long time in that position, it “chokes the blood supply to the nerves. It makes the nerves short-circuit. The next thing you know, there’s tingling in the ring and small finger,” said Dr. Peter J. Evans, the director of the Hand and Upper Extremity Center at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Ah, so it’s really not a Cell Phone Elbow rather it’s just phone elbow. Wear a headset, problem solved and you look wicked cool.
So don’t hold your phone like this stupid cat, for long periods of time and you’ll be fine.
