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New Ouch: Cell Phone Elbow

Submitted by LiveScience Staff

posted: 02 June 2009 10:50 am ET

Unlimited minutes and the commensurate chatting that comes with them has led to diagnoses of cubital tunnel syndrome, or cell phone elbow. Talk a lot? Expect numbness, tingling and pain in your forearm or hand. It's caused by compression of the ulnar nerve, researchers say. Of course, the doctor will have to try and sort out the competing symptoms of numbness and pain caused by too much keyboard typing, too much texting with the thumbs, and of course that darn Guitar Hero wrist.

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