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Weekly Wellness Tip FROM SMITH CHIROPRACTIC Volume 1 Issue 2

Health & Technology Wellness Tips

Technology is everywhere, helping us with our everyday lives and sometimes hurting us. For this reason, we chose Health & Technology as the topic for our first series of Wellness Tips at Smith Chiropractic. Every week, we will be providing advice on health problems caused by the use of technology. Our Weekly Wellness Tips can be found at: • Smith Chiropractic

Website: www.drpatricksmith.com

• Smith Chiropractic Facebook Page: DrPatrickRSmith

• Our office for printouts

IS ALL THAT TEXTING GIVING YOU A SORE THUMB?

Excessive Texting and Thumb Pain

Texting has become one of the most popular means of communicating in today’s techno savvy world. In a study conducted by the Pew Research Center, it was found that Americans between the ages of 18 to 24 sent an average of 110 texts per day. That’s insane! While you are typing out all those messages, you are putting unfavorable tension and pressure on your thumbs. Over time, continuous use of your thumbs for texting can lead to painful tendonitis, which is inflammation of the tendons, and you can develop premature arthritis. That sounds like a problem we need to prevent!

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VOLUME 1 ISSUE 2 WEEKLY WELLNESS TIP

Help Is Here

A simple stretching exercise can help relieve the tension in the thumb’s muscles. For this exercise, take a rubber band and wrap it around your thumb and index finger. Next, move your thumb and index finger in opposite directions from one another, hold for 3 seconds and then bring your thumb and index finger back together. It is recommended to perform this movement for about 20 repetitions. By doing this exercise, you will stretch overworked muscles thus protecting your thumbs from unwanted problems and complications due to constant texting.

In addition to addressing spinal health, chiropractic adjustments can help restore function and provide relief for a number of misalignment issues that can occur between the 27 bones of the wrist/hand. If you experience experience thumb pain due to excessive texting or any pain in your hand/wrist, chiropractic care has been shown to be an effective method of correcting the cause of your pain and preventing future problems.

Help for Texting Thumb

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