Thumb Pain And The Danger Of Text Message Injury

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   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
   • Don’t 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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