People are taking so many selfies, they're getting "Selfie Wrist."
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One local doctor tells us how to recognize the signs and symptoms and has expert advice on what you can do.
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Selfies help you capture how you look and feel at a given moment.
Tina Choi, 29, works in digital media promotion.
For her clients, she says a successful selfie can raise their profile and income.
Choi believes selfies are an effective way of sharing a sense of yourself.
"Its really about telling a story. Where you're at. What you're doing. How active you are," Choi said.
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But all that selfie taking started causing tingling in her fingers and wrist and later discomfort. After a few months she said it felt like a sharp pain in the corner of her wrist and it actually would prevent her from working.
Choi is one of a growing number of patients that orthopedic surgeon Dr. Levi Harrison is treating for a condition he calls "Selfie Wrist."
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"It's a form of carpal tunnel," Harrison said. "What happens is the nerve becomes inflamed and angry."
Harrison said the problem begins when patients constantly hyper-flex their wrist inwards in a rush to capture that perfect angle.
"You're right in the moment. Let's take a picture right now and that's what happens," he said.
Harrison taught Tina how to hold her phone without too much bend in her wrist.
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Next, he showed her exercises to do for just minutes a day.
He slowly rotates his wrists and says, "Just around the world for a set of 20 and then back around the world for another set of 20."
Then do the same movements with semi-closed wrists.
You can also try what he calls "flappers" and the "queen's wave."
After a few weeks, Tina's pain improved. Now she takes much safer selfies.
"That is the nature of our generation right now," she said, "We're taking so many selfies these days."