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.

Discover the hidden ways smartphone use damages thumb joints, causes tendon inflammation, and triggers nerve pain, plus ...

Beatrice Grasu, MD, Orthopaedic Hand Surgeon shares some common symptoms people should watch out for and who's most at risk ...

Wearing down of the cartilage. Although it could also be ‘texting thumb,’ also known as ‘trigger finger.’ It’s an inflammation due to overuse and constant repetitive motions, such as the ...

A preliminary Google revealed that I’d acquired the embarrassingly 21st-century ailment of “texting thumb”, also known as de Quervain’s tenosynovitis, which should be reserved for a 15 ...

A reader, who we’ll call Rhonda, wrote recently about text thumb and a whole bunch of other things that got me thinking.

Though the workers’ aches are often less severe than the pulled hamstrings and ruptured Achilles tendons of an athlete, texting thumb and tech neck can cascade into more serious issues if not ...