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Have You Been Holding Your Phone Wrong This Whole Time?
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 3101" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://lifehacker.com/have-you-been-holding-your-phone-wrong-this-whole-time-1848521531" target="_blank"><strong>Have You Been Holding Your Phone Wrong This Whole Time? - Life Hacker</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>The way you hold your phone could be damaging your thumb, pinkie, or forearm nerves.</strong></p><p></p><p>Quick, how do you hold your phone? Is the bottom of it resting on your pinkie, while you cradle the back with your index, middle, and ring fingers, and your thumb does all the scrolling? Alas, like the many <a href="https://lifehacker.com/have-you-been-wearing-your-neck-pillow-wrong-this-whole-1847991176" target="_blank">other seemingly easy, intuitive things</a> we do, it is wrong. </p><p></p><p>While the one-handed claw is seemingly the most convenient way to grip your device, over prolonged periods of time, it could be doing damage to your wrist and aggravating your ulnar nerve—among other issues.</p><p></p><p><strong>What is smartphone pinkie? </strong></p><p></p><p>You may already be familiar with the term “smartphone finger,” also known as texting tendinitis, texting thumb, and gamer’s thumb. But now we must also contend with “<a href="https://theconversation.com/smartphone-pinky-and-other-injuries-caused-by-excessive-phone-use-148861" target="_blank">smartphone pinkie</a>” (not a medical term—yet). According to <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/smartphone-finger#smartphone-finger" target="_blank">Healthline</a>, “The fingers most impacted by holding a smartphone, tablet, or video game controller are your pinky and thumb,” which can become cramped or inflamed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 3101, member: 1"] [URL='https://lifehacker.com/have-you-been-holding-your-phone-wrong-this-whole-time-1848521531'][B]Have You Been Holding Your Phone Wrong This Whole Time? - Life Hacker[/B][/URL] [B]The way you hold your phone could be damaging your thumb, pinkie, or forearm nerves.[/B] Quick, how do you hold your phone? Is the bottom of it resting on your pinkie, while you cradle the back with your index, middle, and ring fingers, and your thumb does all the scrolling? Alas, like the many [URL='https://lifehacker.com/have-you-been-wearing-your-neck-pillow-wrong-this-whole-1847991176']other seemingly easy, intuitive things[/URL] we do, it is wrong. While the one-handed claw is seemingly the most convenient way to grip your device, over prolonged periods of time, it could be doing damage to your wrist and aggravating your ulnar nerve—among other issues. [B]What is smartphone pinkie? [/B] You may already be familiar with the term “smartphone finger,” also known as texting tendinitis, texting thumb, and gamer’s thumb. But now we must also contend with “[URL='https://theconversation.com/smartphone-pinky-and-other-injuries-caused-by-excessive-phone-use-148861']smartphone pinkie[/URL]” (not a medical term—yet). According to [URL='https://www.healthline.com/health/smartphone-finger#smartphone-finger']Healthline[/URL], “The fingers most impacted by holding a smartphone, tablet, or video game controller are your pinky and thumb,” which can become cramped or inflamed. [/QUOTE]
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