Word: carpal
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...Apple's shareholders are like its customers. They are zealots and have an unreasonable attachment to the company. Now that they have been given justification for their ardor, they can hit the "buy" button at their online brokerage accounts until carpal tunnel syndrome kicks...
...taken three buses and walked six blocks to get to my office - all by herself. I bent over to take a look at her hand, which Mattie described as "locking and hurting and sleeping all the time." She had simultaneous and rather bad cases of two hand-surgery classics - carpal tunnel syndrome and trigger finger, a tendon-related condition that causes fingers to catch in a bent position. Other docs had given Mattie splints and shots, but her hand was getting worse. It was clear that if I didn't treat the carpal tunnel and release the pressure...
...Guitar Hero” and masturbation: what do these two things have in common? The answer is simple: they aren’t as good as the real thing—and no one likes getting carpal-tunnel syndrome.You’re sitting there right now, and you’re probably thinking, “No, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. ‘Guitar Hero’ is the best thing since Sparknotes started doing Shakespeare.” I don’t hate “Guitar...
Hand-eye coordination? Maybe. But she pointed out that kids that age--with their delicate, still developing carpal tunnels--are especially vulnerable to repetitive stress injury. O.K., but here's something else: Lily gets frustrated easily, and the game rewards her for sticking with a problem till she solves it. "Maybe she could get the same kind of thing from trying to make a cake?" Thomas asked. "There are lots of other things to solve that have a much richer protocol." I get it: that's what the real world...
...When my father, who is also an orthopedist, was in his 30s, he kept patients in the hospital for periods that would be considered ridiculous today. Those clavicle fracture patients were kept in for a week, carpal tunnel surgery patients stayed for a few days, a bad back might get five or six days. None of these patients ever stay over even one night now; even some go home the same day, and the carpal tunnel patients are out the door in less than an hour. I lived through the change - patients and doctors both were pretty nervous as discharges...