Take it easy with your Treo. “It’s mostly the road warrior who prefers to answer e-mails on a thumb keyboard,” said Hirsch. “If all you did was just answer with a simple yes and no, it would not be a dilemma.” For as long as video gamers have been blasting aliens, so-called “Gamer’s Thumb” has been a sore spot for them, as well. With tens of millions of portable video game machines on the market, lots of young hands risk digit abuse. Games for such devices generally include some type of printed warning about injury risks from prolonged playing. Earlier this year, the American Society of Hand Therapists issued a consumer alert, warning users of small electronic gadgets that heavy thumb use could lead to painful swelling of the sheath around the tendons in the thumb. The group recommended taking frequent breaks during e-mailing and resting one’s arms on a pillow for support… Blackberry Users Learning Painful Lesson – [Yahoo! News via Geek-Digest]
