If you love to watch tennis and other sports, then you must be aware of Tennis elbow and Golfers Elbow. It is a subtle or abrupt injury of the muscle and tendon area around the outside of the elbow due to overuse of the arm.
Nowadays a third kind of rare elbow disorder called Selfie Elbow is found frequently in people who are selfie addicts. What is this selfie elbow, let us reveal the secret here.
Selfie elbow is found in people who are fond of taking too many selfies. It is obvious actresses, sports persons and models will be confronted by this disorder more than others because most of them are selfieaholic. That we can see on their Facebook and Instagram accounts.
A report carried by a daily publication recently claimed that people who spent a good amount of time in the day to take those perfect selfies are at a risk of developing “selfie elbow”.
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It is a real medical condition in which pain occurs in the pic – snapping elbow.
“An award winning journalist and NBC’s today show host Hoda Kotb went to a doctor complaining of pain in her elbow,” elle.com reported.
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The publication quoted her saying that she went to an orthopedist who told her is she playing tennis or ping-pong. Kotb said that her answer was no but she told the doctor that she is addicted to taking selfies and the pain in the elbow might be because of that very thing.
“When you take the picture, your arm is up, bent in a weird way and you just click, click, click — think about how many you take: 20, 30, or 40. Selfie elbow, everyone has it,” added Kotb, who is also a good-documented figure on photo-sharing website Instagram.
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She was advised by doctor to ice her elbow and to follow some exercise to relieve the soreness. The doctor also advised her to use both arms alternatively if she wants to take selfies anymore in the future.
Jordan Metzl who works as a sports medicine physician at a USA hospital says that the problem is simply overuse.
“You get selfie elbow from taking too many selfies, as you put too much stress on the muscle and it irritates the area where the muscle comes off the bone and you get this inflammatory response,” Metzl added.
How to treat ‘Selfie elbow’
You can prevent and treat selfie elbow with the help of these below mentioned tricks:
- You can take pain relievers like Advil or Motrin. They will reduce inflammation.
- You can also reduce the pain and inflammation by icing your elbow.
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- You can get rid of selfie elbow by stretching your muscles
- Try to take selfies with both arms which will reduce the load on one arm.
- The easiest trick is to use selfie stick which works as an arm extender hence reducing the pressure on the elbow.
