Now high-tech products are very popular, ‘cell phone hand’ and ‘mouse hand’ are basically concentrated in the young and middle-aged population, the incidence is still relatively high, I hope we can all pay high attention.”
Serious need for surgery
You must not think that “cell phone hand” is a minor problem, can be drug-free self-cure, serious “cell phone hand” patients even need surgery to heal!
Ning Bin said, under normal physiological conditions, flexion and extension of the finger tendons repeatedly slide, the muscle contraction generated by the power to the joints, to produce finger flexion and extension activities, to meet the needs of hand function. The hand is the more flexible part of the human organ, if excessive use of cell phones, can also cause hand disorders, such as tendinitis. “Cell phone hand” is a disease that occurs mainly in teenagers.
If you use a cell phone for a long time, the friction or wear between the flexor and extensor tendons and the tendon sheath is too frequent, which eventually leads to aseptic inflammation, edema and thickening of the tendon and thickening of the tendon sheath wall, resulting in local pain, tenderness and swelling. “Some patients may experience popping and ringing when the finger moves, or, suddenly the strangulation is in a position where it cannot move. The most common site is the thumb or the radiodorsal aspect of the wrist joint.” Ning Bin said, in fact, more commonly known as, suddenly a joint of the hand can not move, or the thumb, wrist and other joint parts produce severe pain, this phenomenon deserves the high attention of cell phone fans, need to promptly go to the hospital, under the examination of professional doctors to do treatment, must not be handled by themselves.
Ning Bin gives some suggestions for treatment and prevention.
The above symptoms are found, should be promptly in the relevant medical institutions to confirm the diagnosis. Severe symptoms can be treated with drug closure, and individual patients may need surgery. Patients should try to reduce the use of cell phone time, change the use of the way, such as try to avoid one-handed operation of cell phones, can use two-handed operation, appropriate to disperse the stress on the fingers. A slightly larger phone can be used to give more support to the hand and reduce the stress on the hand, so that the hand is less damaged. Timely rest is the best way. Because the use of cell phones requires finger joints to constantly adjust their position in a particular direction, long-term, the stable structure of the joint will cause chronic damage, not only cause changes in the stability of the joint, and even cause serious joint pain. At this point, the joints need to rest, otherwise it will cause irreversible consequences.
Excessive use of the mouse can also trigger the “mouse hand”
Ning Bin said, excessive or incorrect use of high-tech products will lead to pathological changes in the tissue structure of the hand, causing injury to both hands, and ultimately the physiological function of the hand is affected. In addition to the more common now “cell phone hands”, there is a hand disorder caused by excessive operation of the computer, operation of the mouse – “mouse hand”, also concentrated in the young and middle-aged people In the young and middle-aged population, the relatively high incidence. Ning Bin said, suffering from “mouse hand” patients, often accompanied by some other diseases, for example, will cause other parts of the body, such as cervical spondylosis, vision loss, and even mental disorders. Through these phenomena, it is worthwhile to be highly alert to the side effects of high-tech products, if the excessive use of high-tech products, the damage to the human body is all-round.
Experts teach you “hot hand exercise” often practice to protect health
Ning Bin told reporters that if you often use cell phones, computers, mice and other high-tech products, in fact, you can try a “hot hand exercise”, before using your hands first “hot hand”, you can effectively prevent all kinds of hand disorders. Ning Bin said, we may feel a little redundant to warm hands, because usually only heard of running before warming up, rarely heard of the phone before the first “warm hands”. In foreign countries, many orthopedic experts are more advocate of hot hand exercise, because you can effectively avoid hand fatigue, reduce hand disorders, for people who often use their hands to operate the computer, mouse, cell phone, can be considered a health exercise. And in the country may rarely hear of the need to “warm hands” before using the hands.
Ning Bin recommended to the majority of readers a set of hot hand exercise, said to be effective in avoiding hand disorders, if you are interested, may wish to do hand health exercise it.
Step 1: Double upper limbs loosely placed on both sides of the torso, the body upright. Step 2: Right upper limb straight forward to the level of the shoulder joint, palms up, fingers apart pointing to the ground.
Step 3: Move your fingers and wrists upward while gradually clenching your fist and flexing your wrist so that your fist is pointing in the direction of the exerciser.
Step 4: Bend the elbow joint so that the fist is pointing toward the shoulder.
Step 5: Rotate the upper body outward, still maintaining the bent elbow and fist position, and gradually turn the head towards the fist.
Step 6: Straighten the elbow joint and fingers in turn, dorsally extend the wrist joint so that the fingers point to the ground, and slowly turn the head to the opposite shoulder. Repeat steps 1 to 6 above the left upper limb.
Step 7: Raise both upper arms to shoulder level, flex the elbows so that both wrists are palmarly flexed and pressed against each other with the backs of the hands, and point the fingers straight to the ground.
Step 8: Turn your hands overhead, wrists dorsally extended, palms and fingers close together, palms and shoulders back.
Step 9: With palms and fingers still close together, place hands above the head.
Step 10: Gradually move the hands to the back of the head, with the shoulder joints moving backwards at the same time.
Step 11: Straighten both upper limbs outward at shoulder level, make a fist and flex the wrist joint.
Step 12: Gradually lower both upper extremities to the side of the torso and reach behind the body with the wrist joints dorsally extended, fingers as far up as possible and the jaw raised upward.
Step 13: Place both upper limbs loosely on the side of the torso and gently shake the hands.
Ning Bin said that if people are interested, they can complete the whole set of activities once before work and once between or after work, and steps 1 to 6 can be performed at any time. The whole activity should be within the capacity, continuous, slow and coherent. Each step should be held for 5 to 10 seconds. In addition, Ning Bin reminded that not all patients are suitable for this hot hand exercise, patients in the choice of this hot hand exercise before, should consult with the relevant doctors, and explain their specific circumstances, to confirm the suitability of the use of this method, so as to avoid unnecessary injury.