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Are we facing a physical health pandemic due to excessive phone/computer use?

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  • 10-11-2018 12:22am
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    DareGod
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    Is the developed world on track to face a pandemic over the coming decades where, due to excessive use of phones and computers, wrist/hand/muscle pain becomes a major global problem?

    Repetitive strain injury. Carpal tunnel. Etc.

    Any insights?


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    RandomName2
    Registered Users Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    DareGod wrote: »
    Is the developed world on track to face a pandemic over the coming decades where, due to excessive use of phones and computers, wrist/hand/muscle pain becomes a major global problem?

    Or am I over-thinking it?

    I think this is the book you're thinking of, OP

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(novel)


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    Harry Palmr
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    Today's teenagers are not dexterous enough to operate a Spinning Jenny apparently.


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    Poochie05
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    Yes


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    [Deleted User]
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    I would wager that emotional health is the bigger issue long-term.


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    chicorytip
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    DareGod wrote:
    Any insights?


    Yes, postural problems.


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    CinemaGuy45
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    Oh sorry is this a serious thread or a pi*s take?


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    CinemaGuy45
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    DareGod wrote: »

    Any insights?

    Doubt it After Hours is not a very insightful forum.


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    JustAYoungLad
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    People are healthier than ever tbh


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    [Deleted User]
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    everything new brings with it handwringing alarmists

    check their wrists for carpal tunnel maybe


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    Pauliedragon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,457 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    DareGod wrote: »
    Is the developed world on track to face a pandemic over the coming decades where, due to excessive use of phones and computers, wrist/hand/muscle pain becomes a major global problem?

    Repetitive strain injury. Carpal tunnel. Etc.

    Any insights?
    The male side of humanity have been using their wrists excessively for generations. Mostly in the teenage years and after marriage. I'm sure that won't be an issue.


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    [Deleted User]
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    JustAYoungLad wrote: »
    People are healthier than ever tbh

    you misspelled heavier


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    JustAYoungLad
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    you misspelled heavier


    Correlation but not mutual exclusivity.


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    techguy
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    I would be inclined to agree..

    I for one spend an absolute shed load of time sitting at computer. My hip flexors are all over the place.

    The bigger issue, as another poster has pointed out will be mental health. I think Mark Zuckerberg is meddling a little too much with the general publics psyche a little too much.

    (bleh, takes off tin foil hat and runs from AH...)


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    Pandemic :) - why scale it down? Go for apocalypse and be she with it!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    Noveight
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    Students in my school use tablets instead of books both in school and to do homework. Sure is a lot of screen time.


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    Raheem Euro
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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Pandemic :) - why scale it down? Go for apocalypse and be she with it!

    I think it is endemic and will reach epidemic proportions. An epi-pandemic.


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    techguy
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    Noveight wrote: »
    Students in my school use tablets instead of books both in school and to do homework. Sure is a lot of screen time.

    I agree.. I previously worked on an a ebook app for one of the major educational publishers... I never bought into the idea at all but kept my mouth shut and made a living.

    If I ever have children I would be pretty militant about screen time in their
    formative years..

    Also this: (Sorry for BI article)

    http://uk.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-parents-raising-their-kids-tech-free-red-flag-2018-2


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,014 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Raheem Euro wrote: »
    I think it is endemic and will reach epidemic proportions. An epi-pandemic.

    Some people just dont seem to want to make the effort...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    Hammer89
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    DareGod wrote: »
    Any insights?

    Don't lick frogs.


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    mvl
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    appears as long as we don't smoke and don't go to war, we should be grand !

    https://www.wired.com/story/the-key-to-a-long-life-has-little-to-do-with-good-genes/


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    ExMachina1000
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    We got a pandemic alright


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    #23
    ILoveYourVibes
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    Yes ....and no.


    People are less fit and more over weight. But we live longer.


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    riclad
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    I think some people are having serious issues right now, working from home,
    Not every young person has a large room they can turn into a home office,
    Some people are just working from a bedroom
    With a laptop on a small table.
    And working by yourself every day is lonely.
    It turns out some people like the social element
    of going to an office, there's maybe a canteen,
    you can take a break and go outside or talk to someone.
    Taking zoom meetings for hours every day is
    not ideal for many people.
    When you work in an office you have a desk and
    probably a pc and a large monitor.
    I think working from home does not suit many people especially if you live by yourself in a small flat.
    If you are a writer or an artist it may be fine if
    you have a large space to work in
    and have a real pc with a monitor.
    Of course big company's can save money if they can close down some offices and just give everyone a pc or a laptop.
    Using a laptop for hours every day is not good for your health. Most people in offices use a pc with a monitor.


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    riclad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    I think some people are having serious issues right now, working from home,
    Not every young person has a large room they can turn into a home office,
    Some people are just working from a bedroom
    With a laptop on a small table.
    And working by yourself every day is lonely.
    It turns out some people like the social element
    of going to an office, there's maybe a canteen,
    you can take a break and go outside or talk to someone.
    Taking zoom meetings for hours every day is
    not ideal for many people.
    When you work in an office you have a desk and
    probably a pc and a large monitor.
    I think working from home does not suit many people especially if you live by yourself in a small flat.
    If you are a writer or an artist it may be fine if
    you have a large space to work in
    and have a real pc with a monitor.
    Of course big company's can save money if they can close down some offices and just give everyone a pc or a laptop.
    Using a laptop for hours every day is not good for your health. Most people in offices use a pc with a monitor
    Do schools presume every child has a laptop or a tablet with WiFi internet access?
    Many rural areas have no access to broadband,
    all they have is maybe a weak 3g signal on a phone


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    [Deleted User]
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    you cannot design a system of existence where "some people" wont find problems

    comparisons with a notional perfection arent a lot of use in the real world


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    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,239 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Multiple waves.
    Emotional, mental, physical health, obesity.

    You name it and it's off the charts now.

    Society is deeply broken, more so in many ways than when people had it really rough.


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    DrSerious3
    Registered Users Posts: 130 ✭✭DrSerious3


    riclad wrote: »
    I think some people are having serious issues right now, working from home,
    Not every young person has a large room they can turn into a home office,
    Some people are just working from a bedroom
    With a laptop on a small table.
    And working by yourself every day is lonely.
    It turns out some people like the social element
    of going to an office, there's maybe a canteen,
    you can take a break and go outside or talk to someone.
    Taking zoom meetings for hours every day is
    not ideal for many people.
    When you work in an office you have a desk and
    probably a pc and a large monitor.
    I think working from home does not suit many people especially if you live by yourself in a small flat.
    If you are a writer or an artist it may be fine if
    you have a large space to work in
    and have a real pc with a monitor.
    Of course big company's can save money if they can close down some offices and just give everyone a pc or a laptop.
    Using a laptop for hours every day is not good for your health. Most people in offices use a pc with a monitor
    Do schools presume every child has a laptop or a tablet with WiFi internet access?
    Many rural areas have no access to broadband,
    all they have is maybe a weak 3g signal on a phone

    You can say that again


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