Chat in excess by 'BB' could affect the thumbs

The increase in cases of young people and adolescents, whose only job is to study, but they come to the clinic the orthopedist Freddy Kings with pain from inflammation in the tendon of the thumb and the wrist, you being to associate this pathology, very typical of people who work with the hands, to the constant use of the Blackberry or BB which every day becomes more common in the country much.

Reyes, head of the orthopedics service of hospital Salvador B. Gautier, says that this pathology known as tenosynovitis or Quervain (inflammation of tendons and surrounding tissues) disease is very common among people who work in beauty salons, who widely used computer, percussionists, seamstresses, operarias of frank and digitadores areas, but since three years here that more attend his private practice are students or level means not working, but does use a lot that kind of phone mobile.

Other orthopedics u000aconsulted recognise that it is very common to receive consultation of people with the Carpiano tunnel syndrome, which manifests itself in pain from the shoulder to the wrist and disorders of the three main fingers of the hand, but they associate it to the use of the computer "mouse" and the permanent work with the hands, not to the use of the BB.

In this last match the President of the Dominican society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, José Gabriel Aponte Pons; the Dario Contreras, Héctor Quezada, hospital director and surgeon orthopedist, David Abreu.

Meanwhile Luis Cabrera, emergenciólogo says that the accidents of transit and quarrels are associated with the use of this type of mobile phone, due to the distraction that generates between drivers and pedestrians.

Consulted in this regard, Kings, orthopedic spine surgeon, said he has not seen any cases of person who presents any deformity in their thumbs by the constant use of the phone keys u000asharing messages, but with the disease of Quervain, which is an irritation of tendons at the base of the thumb, causing much pain at the wrist and the first toe.

He explained that the Carpiano tunnel syndrome also causes much pain, but chat in excess by the 'BB' causes inflammation of tendons is being quite often in young people and adolescents, taking between 45 and 60 per cent of patients to receive.

Explained that what is recommended is to avoid the constant use of BB to be reserved for the sending of messages of interest. "What happens now is that suspended food, does not share with the family be writing and when there is meeting pending its BB." "I like Professor ask to turn off cell phones in class, and believe that parents must establish that when they are in the family," noted.

Says that if the patient does not respond to the use of the anti-inflammatory and the u000aphysical therapy, can reach even the surgical.

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at the same time, other experts consulted coincided in May that is even an increase in cases of both diseases, so far not be associated to the use of the BB because there are no studies on the subject.

Aponte Pons said yes you receive very often patients with pain in the hands, fruit of these two diseases that they are well known as the Carpiano tunnel syndrome and Quervain disease, which are very typical of people who do a work where the use of hands is constantly required.

As long as doctors Quezada and Abreu recalled that the use by long hours of mouse or mouse of the computer and the constant work with the hands leads people to develop the Carpiano tunnel syndrome, which can lead to a

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