Are you a selfie maniac? You may develop a ‘Selfie Elbow’ if you did not fall off the cliff while taking one! Well that’s the latest paradigm associated with the perfect selfie-snap, isn’t it?
Apparently it turns out that capturing that perfect selfie can put you at risk of developing “selfie elbow” which is slowly becoming a real medical condition.
Like tennis elbow or golfer’s elbow, an addiction to selfie-taking can harm your primary pic-snapping elbow.
In a recent case, award-winning journalist and NBC’s Today show host Hoda Kotb went to a doctor complaining of pain in her elbow, elle.com reported.
“I went to the orthopaedist and he said, “are you playing tennis or ping-pong?” I told him I was taking selfies,” Kotb was quoted as saying.
“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 well-documented figure on photo-sharing website Instagram.
Reportedly, her doctor recommended icing her elbow and certain exercises to help relieve the soreness.
“Basically, the interface between technology and the human body sometimes causes injuries of over-exuberance,” Jordan Metzl, sports medicine physician at the Hospital for Special Surgery in the US, was quoted as saying in a Cosmopolitan report.
According to medical experts, taking too many selfies can cause ‘selfie-elbow’ as one may 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.
However, experts opine that using a selfie stick may not lead to severity of the condition.
