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Thumb Pain And The Danger Of Text Message Injury
Virgin Mobile has launched a website which explains how to avoid repetitive strain injury (RSI) from sending too many text messages.
New findings from Virgin Mobile reveal that:
Latest figures from the MDA reveal that over 100 million text messages are sent every single day in the UK alone
3.8 million British mobile phone users suffer from text-related injuries
38% people suffer from sore wrists and thumbs from texting
Virgin Mobile link up with the British Chiropractic Association to help prevent Text Message Injury ( TMI )
Visit www.practisesafetext.com for further information
Sensible advice
If texting starts to hurt. Stop. Use the other hand or call instead Vary the hand you use
Vary the digits you use
Dont text for more than a few minutes without a break
Exercises
Stop these exercises if you feel any pain otherwise you can do more harm than good.
In your texting hand: -
Tap each finger with the thumb of the same hand. Repeat x 5
Pull your thumb firmly with the other hand. Repeat x 5
Wrap an elastic band around the tips of fingers and thumb and open your hand against the resistance. Repeat x 20
Palms down wrap an elastic band around each thumb and force apart. Repeat x 20
Tap the palm and back of your hand on your thigh as quickly as you can. Repeat x 20
Massage thumb web, back of forearm and front of forearm. 2 minutes.
Press and rub in a circular motion the painful nodules in those muscles. 30 seconds for each nodule.
Reach up high with both arms and shake your hands. Reach down low with both arms and shake. Repeat x 3.
Arms at 45 degrees squeeze them behind you.
If it still hurts after a week of doing exercises wrap an ice pack on sore hand and arm parts. Do not put ice directly on the skin but wrap in a thin cloth or piece of kitchen roll. 10 minutes on, 10 minutes off. Repeat x 3.
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