• Outstanding care
    for all hand, wrist & elbow conditions
  • Outstanding care
    for all hand, wrist & elbow conditions
  • Outstanding care
    for all hand, wrist & elbow conditions
  • Outstanding care
    for all hand, wrist & elbow conditions

How you should be holding your smartphone, according to an orthopedic surgeon

How you should be holding your smartphone, according to an orthopedic surgeon

WATCH | A wrist and hand doctor explains the health risks that come with holding a smartphone the wrong way

Here’s a wakeup call for those of you poking your thumbs into your smartphones some thousands of times a day: You could be doing serious damage to your hands and wrists!

That’s because, according to specialists we asked, there are right and wrong ways to hold a cell phone. And if you’re clawing your iPhone the incorrect way day in and day out, it’s possible you’ll soon be calling up one of these wrist and hand specialists yourself to make an appointment for surgery.

Source: Circa

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  • American Society for Surgery of the Hand
  •  American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
  • North Shore-LIJ Health System
  • Harvard University
  • Northwell Ortho Institute
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