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August 5, 2014Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine111 citationsOpen Access

Musculoskeletal Disorders of the Upper Extremities Due to Extensive Usage of Hand Held Devices

DSDeepak SharanMMMathankumar MohandossRRRameshkumar Ranganathan

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The study concluded that mobile phones and gadgets that promoted the predominant usage of thumb or only one finger while texting or using the controls were associated with a higher prevalence of MSDs. Treatment using a sequenced rehabilitation protocol was found to be effective.

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Sharan et al. (2014) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69df447d6324afb55d591efdhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s40557-014-0022-3
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