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How Your
Smartphone
Is Harming
Your Health
ILLUSTRATIONS BY MARTIN GEE
BY CAROLYN GREGOIRE
Are you and your smartphone inseparable? If so, you’re not alone
— plenty of research illustrates
how increasingly addicted we’re
becoming to our mobile devices,
including one survey showing that 66 percent of people
are actually afraid to lose or be
separated from their cell phones.
And if rising rates of sleep texting aren’t enough to signal our
addiction to our cell phones, we
don’t know what is.
To the right, find out how excessive smartphone use could be
messing with your physical and mental well-being.
THE THIRD
METRIC
TEXT CLAW
HUFFINGTON
12.08.13
Do you find yourself with soreness or cramping
in your wrist and fingers? It could be a nonmedical term called “text claw.” Repetitive fine
motor activity — including that from texting,
playing too much Candy Crush, etc. — can
exacerbate conditions like tendinitis, and can
cause wrist and forearm pain.