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I've had a blackberry for about 3 years. Part of my morning ritual is to wake up and, in bed for an hour, read the industry research which is emailed to me daily. It's much more convenient than spending an extra hour in my office. I also return urgent emails and shoot out important messages. However, a couple months after I got the Blackberry Storm, which is a touch screen and requires you to actually push down on the screen until it clicks fo each maneuver, I began to get an ache in my forearm. I thought maybe it was due to straining it biking so I relaxed off it a bit. But the pain ony worsened with time. It has gotten so bad that it feels like a bruise all the time, especially agrivated by movement or touch. I coincidentally have been having the same problem in my achilles tendon, preventing me from walking without limping. As I was doing some research, I discovered I have achilles tendonitis and started to look into similar site about my forearm.

I discovered this site! http://www.fastpitchpress.com/pressrelease.cfm?PRID=30189 and now it all makes sense! Apparently it has become very common for users of the blackberry to have persistent and worsening pain in their either thumb or forearm. I haven't had the thumb pain yet, but the forearm pain is nearly debilitating for blackberry use. I have been weaning myself from my office and trying to reclaim more of my life back from my workaholic tendencies, but now I've realized my best bet is to get an assistant rather than try and manage the entire workload myself. I hope some others can now identify what they've been suffering from as "blackberry syndrome" as the doctor called it, and now put a name to that nagging pain in their forearm.

I know I'll be switching to an iphone (which does not require clicking the screen) as soon as Verizon picks it up, it will be well worth getting rid of blackberry syndrome, I hope for good!

Lindsey Kinnsch

June 10, 2009 - 5:55pm

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