Overcoming Text Craze Injuries

SMS (short message service) or texting between mobile phones is undeniably the most popular and favored tool of communication nowadays. The texting craze has surpassed the popularity of internet communication technology. Presently, there are more than a billion cell phone owners as compared to 600 million on line communication users. However effective this communication tool is, excessive use is detrimental to the health of the users.

A survey conducted disclosed that a considerable number of people suffer from texting injuries. Repetitive strain injury (RSI) and text messaging injury (TMI) afflicts a huge number of texters. TMI and RSI are upper limb disorders caused by the swelling of tendons of the wrist and fingers. People afflicted by this injury suffer soreness and pain of the wrist, fingers and forearms. Excessive and repetitive use of thumbs to type messages causes the swelling that hinders blood circulation. Maintaining good blood circulation is vital to avoid injuries.

An excessive texter could avoid text injuries by practicing these safe texting habits. Stop texting when you feel soreness and pain. You can use the other hand to hold the phone or use other fingers to type instead of the thumb. Always remember to put down the phone while waiting for a reply to your message. Take several minutes break between texting and do keep texting sessions to a maximum of 15 minutes.

At the onset of pain, stretch your fingers and move your wrist in a circular motion. Massaging the hands, fingers and forearms would help blood circulation. Use a chair or table as a support to your hand. Although the cell phone may weigh next to nothing, the load on the hand is increased if the arm is stretched out for a long time.

Make use of the cell phones predictive text messaging feature to do away with the necessity of typing the same text messages.

Posted in Text Messaging  on April 6, 2008 - 10:59 am by admin  |