Mobile telephone text messaging has become so popular in Britain that millions of users suffer injuries to their thumbs and fingers.
More than 93.5 million text messages are sent every day and this has lead to an exponential growth in the number of people with repetitive strain injury.
Thirty-eight per cent more people suffer from sore wrists and thumbs because of text messaging than five years ago; 3.8 million people complain of text-related injuries a year, according to a survey for Virgin Mobile released yesterday.
Read more... (The Sydney Morning Herald)