According to a 2024 study, regularly engaging with electronic devices that necessitate thumb usage can worsen thumb strain. Moreover, adopting awkward postures while using these devices increases the ...

When you text or use your smartphone, you’re making repetitive movements and putting your thumb through a wide range of motion. Your thumb isn’t really designed for these types of movements. A study ...

Do you feel a nagging pain in your thumb? If so, it could be related to excessive use of your smartphone, which encourages too much swiping and typing. Our fingers are not adapted to perform these ...

A sudden twitch or pain in the thumb and wrist should not be overlooked as it can indicate underlying conditions or injuries that may require medical attention. If left untreated, it can lead to ...

De Quervain’s Disease is a painful tendinitis that develops at the base of the thumb at the wrist level. A Swiss surgeon, Fritz de Quervain, first described this problem in 1895. Numerous tendons pass ...

They are the key to our social lives, our music players and schedule planners. But smartphones and tablets can also cause a host of health problems - including 'scroller thumb', which is where hands ...

Last week, I was twisting the cap off a bottle of cranberry juice when I realized I wasn’t twisting anything. The cap wasn’t moving. Was something wrong with the cap? Of course not. This has been ...

A tiny ‘jellybean’ implanted in the thumb joint could relieve the pain and immobility of hand arthritis, according to new research. The prosthesis, made from the same clear gel material as disposable ...

A study on the pain at the base of the thumb conducted in the University of Malaga has evidenced that a continuous use of the mobile phone, especially among young people, goes hand in hand with new ...

Americans now spend more than five hours a day hunched over, reading emails, sending texts or checking social media sites, according to analytics firm Flurry — and it’s turning into a real pain in the ...