Elbow Pain and Cell Phone
January 19th, 2006
Elbow Pain
Cell Phone
Mobile Phone and Elbow Pain
A report from CBS 3 in New York discusses the effect that prolonged use of a cell phone can have on the onset of elbow pain.
The condition has been dubbed “cell phone elbow“.
Those who experience it get a variety of elbow and forearm symptoms including pain, numbness and tingling in the forearm and hand. It may be the result of a nerve being nipped at the elbow – if severe the nerve damage and symptoms can be persistent.
Experts said it is important to pay attention to any signs of cell phone elbow. Symptoms include pain running down the arm or tingling and numbness in the ring finger and pinky.
The problem arises in the large ulnar nerve which runs just below the skin behind the elbow. It’s the nerve that gets tweaked when we hit our “funny bone”
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