Deformed little finger, bigger thumb, injuries almost unknown until now: by dint of using smartphones, our hands suffer. But do they change?
When thinking about the health consequences of smartphones, the first things that come to mind are the eyes, potentially damaged by blue light, the potential dangers of waves or disturbed sleep, but they can be much more unexpected. : smartphones can also deform or injure our hands.
Elbow pain
According to an investigation by Larry Rosen and Adam Gazzaley, spotted by the site Slate, the students surveyed spend 4 hours and 22 minutes a day on their phones, which they unlock on average 50 times a day. The use of the smartphone, especially when it is also prolonged, causes repeated and relatively new gestures, so that the body changes to adapt and certain injuries, such as tendonitis, become more widespread.
Still in Slate’s article, Pierre Vulliet, orthopedic surgeon at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital, also evokes the consequences of a bad position of the elbow, bent, when holding the smartphone: “Compared to people without a smartphone, on ultrasound, in people using it intensively, an enlargement of the ulnar nerve (ulnar nerve) at the elbow, a sign of compression or irritation which can give temporary pain or tingling, or even permanent in the ring and little fingers. In addition, the median nerve to the carpal tunnel appears to be more thickened and widened. “
Injuries posted on social networks
this has my going ???? I think my phone might have actually deformed my finger Lol pic.twitter.com/KS52RsE1VJ
– LUISRAWW (@luISraww) September 25, 2015
My finger is getting deformed bc of my phone ???????? pic.twitter.com/CvL5G1EsK8
– alki (@happywithlouis) September 9, 2015
On social networks, several Internet users claim to have deformed hands because of their phone. It is the little finger, on which the telephone rests, which would be regularly deformed or painful. In some users, a horn even appears there.
One inch bigger
In the United Kingdom, the telephone company O2 carried out a investigation on the deformations of the hand linked to the smartphone. 2,000 people responded to the survey, they spent an average of two hours on their smartphone, which, according to them, was not without consequences on their fingers: their thumb would be up to 15% larger than the other But in general, the thumb of the guiding hand (right-handed or left-handed) is already bigger than the other.
13% of 18-24 year olds would be affected by this deformation. The thumb used for “swiping”, the act of sweeping the screen with your finger, is on average 15% larger than the other. Bumps would appear on the fingers, which are actually calluses.
Will the writer’s bump disappear in favor of the smartphone bump? Answer in a few years.
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