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3rd Case Appeared (Texting Tenosynovitis)
« on: December 24, 2007, 05:31:21 AM »
NEW Zealand student Fleur de Vere Beavis, 20, who sends up to 100 text messages a day on her mobile phone, has been diagnosed with texting tenosynovitis, a newspaper reported today.

Constant text messaging has inflamed the tendons along the thumb and side of the wrist and filled the surrounding tissue with fluid, the Sunday Star-Times said, quoting a report in the New Zealand Medical Journal.

It said only two other cases of the ailment had been reported in a school-aged child in Singapore and a 13-year-old girl in Australia, but the authors of the journal report, Emma Storr and Mark Stringer, said tenosynovitis was likely to be more common than thought, given the popularity of texting.

New Zealand with a population of 4.2 million people has about 4.5 million mobile phones in use and more than 28 million text messages are sent every day.

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Re: 3rd Case Appeared (Texting Tenosynovitis)
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2007, 05:25:32 AM »
How did they know there are only 3 cases in this world? ???
I am sure there can be others who experienced such a problem and they don't even know it's a disease called "Texting Tenosynovitis"

Another question:
How a country of 4.2 million population use 4.5 million mobile phones as mentioned here???
Pharmacist is highly-trained and skilled healthcare professional who perform various roles to ensure optimal health outcomes for his patients.


 

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