Teen's texting leads to carpal tunnel syndrome
A Chicago teenager who used to send up to 4,000 texts a month is now facing surgery because of damage to her hands. Annie Levitz, 16, says she texted nonstop every minute she wasn’t in school, but after she “started losing feeling in my hands,” Levitz saw her doctor, who diagnosed carpal tunnel syndrome. Levitz now wears braces on both forearms and gets regular cortisone injections, but says she still sends around 30 texts a day. “I know it is not good enough, but I am trying,” says Levitz. “It’s not even good texts. It’s things like, ‘Hey, what’s up?’”
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