短信一族 请小心你的拇指

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据路透社报道，狂发手机短信不但浪费钱，而且会令手指受伤，甚至导致严重肌腱炎。

意大利两家报纸周一差不多辟出半版发出这则健康讯息，报道指北部城市萨沃纳一名13岁女孩发短信成癖，竟在1日内发出至少100个信息，结果需接受矫型医生治疗，除了要服消炎药外，医生更命令她要好好休息右手。

13-year-old Bailey Baker's thumbs are in constant motion, sending text messages to her friends again, again and again. Last month may have been her best month ever, when she texted 8000 times. Now she's feeling the pain. Just mainly back and neck problems and thumb numbness and it hurts. Doctor Jane Sadler’s seeing more and more teens who simply text until it hurts. She says parents including Bailey's mother have no idea how much their kids are texting.

"I was thinking she was texting about 25 texts a day. Wrong.We haven’t even covered the problem."

And it doesn't take Doctor Sadler long to isolate the problem. She gives Bailey the once over
and learns she's texting about 200 times a day.

"Well, Bailey, what you have is texting teen tendonitis." That's right. Bailey has TTT.

"A lot of them report pain in their thumbs or their elbows or their back and neck. And when we look into it or investigate a little bit further, we see that commonly the culprit is texting."

Doctor Sadler says back soreness is caused by poor posture when texting. Bailey often texts for up to two hours a day. There’s a lot of wear and tear on the thumbs which over time can break down.

"What I tell them is , hey, you might be normal now. But when you are 40 or 50, you can get arthritis." Doctor Sadler expects a boom in thumb-joint replacement surgeries over the next several decades. For Bailey, Doctor Sadler suggested exercises like this to strengthen her hands. School's out, but Bailey got a lesson about the downside of all that texting.

"Clinic thing that texting can mess like make your hands feel so bad."