Wednesday, July 22, 2009

'Teen Texting Tendonitis' the Latest Health Epidemic

Teens text way too much. A 13-year-old Bailey Baker from Dallas, TX and her 8,000 monthly text messages -- we've heard of a different young girl send 41,000 messages in a month, and even one who claimed to send 300,000. So, 8,000? That's nothing. 

That is until we learned that Bailey is suffering from what some have dubbed Teen Texting Tendonitis (or TTT), a fancy, unnecessary name for sore thumbs. In short, our thumbs are not designed for tapping out messages on tiny keyboards. So it should come as no surprise that Bailey found herself suffering from back, neck, elbow, and thumb pain, as well as occasional numbness in her opposable fifth digit.

So now parents have one more reason to freak out about their child's texting habit: the medical bills, which I'm sure will not be covered under the new Obama planned healthcare.

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