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Thumbing your way to pain

I know many readers of this blog, along with myself, are addicted to their Blackberry or, in my case, Treo. My peace of mind has gone up tremendously with the adoption of this technology. Now, when I'm away from my laptop, I can still thumb out an email (or two, or three, or ten). I have been wondering if this is just good for my thumb dexterity or if indeed I am doing structural harm and am pioneering a modern version of carpel tunnel, focused on the thumbs.

For what it's worth, I always give my thumbs a full range of motion exercise after thumbing away a long email.

This article on washingtontimes.com, "Being all thumbs gets painful" talks about "Blackberry Thumb" - a catch-all phrase to describe a repetitive stress injury of the thumb as a result of overusing small gadget keypads.

Be careful out there!

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