Cell Phones Related Problems Are Rising On An Alarming Rate
Cell phones have become a pain in the neck, eyes, ears, nose, and head. According to the latest research in the U.S, there has been a steady rise in the emergency room treatment for minor injuries caused the fur to mobile phones.
The research which was held by a facial plastic surgeon said that one of her patients has recently suffered a nose break after her phone fell on her face. Dr. Boris Paskhover of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School said that the rising number of injuries due to cell phones urged him to take the matter seriously.
He and others went on to go through the emergency room data for the past 20 years and concluded that that the rise in cell phone injuries started mainly after 2006, which was the time when smart phones were newly launched in the market.
According to the reports, some of the injuries were caused due to people getting hit by phone whereas others included situations when people got themselves hurt while using the phone during the times they were walking, tripping, and landing face down on the sidewalk.
Although not many of them were hospitalized during such cases, as per the researchers the problem should be treated seriously.
The study was based on cases in a U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission database that thereby collects emergency room visit information from around 100 hospitals. Till now, the researchers have tallied about 2500 patients who have been registered with cell phone-related head and neck injuries from 1998 through 2017.
The entire study was published in the journal JAMA Otolaryngology.
According to globalnews.com, the study estimated that there was a total count of about 76000 people who were injured during that particular span. The annual cases summed something fewer than 2000 until 2006, but the count increased sharply after that.
Amongst the total count, about 40% of the injured population belonged to the age group of 13 to 29, and most of them were hurt during walking, texting, or driving.
There has been a rising concern related to the usage of cell phones as it was reported to cause repetitive strain injuries in the hands and neck, and also to other body parts which might have occurred sure to distracted usage.
Paskhover remarked that even if he likes using his smartphone it’s easy to get too absorbed in it, and it requires some sort of common sense to avoid injuries.
He also added that people won’t walk around reading a magazine but should be careful while using smartphones.
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