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Stress Injuries And Your High Tech Gadgets
By Phyllis Wasserman, Wed Dec 7th
Are you obsessed with text messaging, video games or yourBlackBerry?Even your cell phone with those tiny buttons can becausing your hand to hurt. Computers can give you physicalproblems. Did you know that when your eyes constantly focus onthe monitor, you get stress injuries to the ocular muscles? Youcan also get keyboard stress injuries from too much typing.Computers have now become the number one cause of eye-stressproblems. The reason for this is your eyes have to work much toohard to constantly read the text. Many computer workers havevision problems from spending hours and hours at their monitors. Another cause for injury is the small buttons of the BlackBerryand cell phones. There is now a repetitive-stress injury titlefor this. It's called "BlackBerry thumb". When you over-do theuse of these small items, you have to also give your hands achance to rest. Kids also get these injuries from over-playingvideo games. But they heal faster than adults. If your kids aregetting pain from video games or text messaging they could bedoing damage that
will be a problem when they grow-up. So tryand not let them overdo it. Things were much simpler in the olden days. No cell phones, nocomputers, no video games, no BlackBerry's. Then all you got ifyou wrote too much is writers cramp! Now when you compile allthese high tech gadgets, you can get real problems. So to aviodthe repetitive-stress injuries and tendinitis, take breaks whenyou are sitting at your computer. It is especially important foryour eyes, even 5 minutes away can help.
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