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'Cell Phone Elbow' Damages Nerves Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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If your pinkie and ring fingers tingle or feel numb, you might not want to pick up that cell phone to call the doctor. Orthopedic specialists are reporting cases of "cell phone elbow," in which patients damage an essential nerve in their arm by bending their elbows too tightly for too long. When cell phone users hold the phone to their ears, they stretch a nerve that extends underneath the funny bone and controls the smallest fingers. It makes the nerves short-circuit. (source: edition.cnn.com)
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