Can you remember any day in recent years that you could not send at least a text to anyone? Difficult isn’t it. Since mobile phones have become ubiquitous in the country, text messaging is now an habit for many people. Hardly an hour passes by than thousands of text messages are not sent to relatives, friends or even colleagues. And this is a global practice. As text messaging grows as a major source of communication, medics are concerned about its physical damage caused by repeated pressing of buttons not to talk of the pain mapped on the body and fingers. Medics are making an awareness and also trying to impose parental choice in education of their children when it comes to test messaging. Common sense approaches should be made when it comes to test for example changing hands when they hurt or taking breaks after several minutes of sending text. Incentive measures should be taken though patients suffering from disease linked to sending text are yet to be seen but it is possible that those who are suffering from it don’t see it as a problem.
