The New, New Thing

Grant Jones

As my friend Patrick said "ADD/ADHD/LSMFT, "carpal tunnel syndrome", 'chronic fatigue', and now (drum roll) --" The new "disease" of the week is something called "texting tendonitis," which is allegedly caused by cellphones:

South Australian general practitioner Robert Menz reported the case of a 13-year-old girl who walked into his surgery earlier this year with a swollen right forearm. "There was no history of trauma, or recalled change of activity," Dr Menz wrote in the Medical Journal of Australia. "Further enquiry revealed that she had been given a mobile phone in December."

The doctor's suggested remedy is:

"Perhaps the manufacturers of mobile phones should include health warnings of the risk of overuse injury as part of product labelling."

There will soon be no product sold on the market that doesn't include warning labels. I feel so much safer.

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