Wasapitis: WhatsApp disease

In Lifestyle we have spoken on other occasions of the new technological diseases associated with the use of internet and mobile phones, as well as injuries due to the continued use of these devices.But, did you know that is there a whatsapp disease ?

The first case

This is a woman who used this messaging service for 6 hours, At the end of 2013, the young and pregnant nurse, arriving at her home after a long guard at the hospital where she worked, just on December 24 of that year, realized that she had many-but many -messages accumulated in your inbox.

Already at home, began to answer each congratulatory message one by one, with the particularity that an incredibly long period of time was absorbed in such activity: a total of 6 hours in a row, without stopping .

At first he had felt a slight discomfort in the wrists, but then he was transferred to his fingers thumbs, so that I could not hold the phone.

Wasapitis: WhatsApp disease

After a consultation with her doctor, she was diagnosed with a new disease: wasapitis , a severe tendonitis caused by the posture of both hands when sending and writing messages holding a 130 gram device.

The treatment: anti-inflammatory, analgesic and cell ban .

What do you have again?

Let's talk first about what wasapitis has in common with other technological injuries.

In the 1990s the call nintenditis , diagnosed with a 35-year-old woman for playing for 5 hours with the famous Japanese console, and years later an injury that they named wiititis , associated with another Japanese console, Wii, suffered by a young man of 29 years after using the command to play tennis.

In fact, people who suffer this type of injury (especially with the sports games ), present muscle contractures common to the athletes themselves, as well as inflammations and tendinitis.

Wasapitis: WhatsApp disease

The new thing about the "addiction" to whatsapp, apart from wasapitis itself, is that young people do not find another way to talk with their friends if it is not through the application: they are increasingly more antisocial, according to Helen Villalba , from the University of Sucre, in Bolivia, engage in their own devices and are progressively less able to establish “face-to-face” relationships.Rivers defend themselves by saying that through whatsapp they communicate with several people at once and immediately.

It may sound a bit exaggerated, but if we carefully observe our own behavior when using electronic devices we can glimpse a somewhat theoretical future: each one leaning over his phone or tablet, sitting next to each other without speaking, in complete isolation, but connected to the world...

Wasapitis: WhatsApp disease

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