If you are permanently glued to your phone, you might need to take a closer look at your digits…
And we don’t mean your phone number.
The latest health crisis our phones are apparently causing us is called “Smartphone Pinky” and it refers to a bent baby finger due to the way we hold our phones.
Twitter users seem to have unearthed this crisis of evolution recently and have been sharing pictures of their malformed fingers.
hey, look at my bent pinky finger due to excessive usage of Mobile Phone ?? #deformations pic.twitter.com/GmfmORxDbP
— dé light (@WaleedStuff) March 17, 2015
My pinky finger is seriously bent because of the way i hold my phone. #WhatIsThis #ItHurts pic.twitter.com/RkI4pn5wny
— Raynerr (@Raynerr_Smith18) December 23, 2013
I have an actual #iphone injury. My finger has bent & will not straighten. Need to change the way I hold my phone. ? pic.twitter.com/DqnIVh5h14
— lucy purnell (@lucypurnell) November 8, 2015
@Justin_Johnes my finger is bent because all i do is hold my phone all day pic.twitter.com/jNmWYyzZlo
— Haley (@haleylozier_) July 16, 2013
However, there is no need to panic just yet.
According to Popular Science, Dan Polatsch, a co-director of the New York Hand and Wrist Center insists any evidence of pinky finger are temporary.
He said: “It’s no different than when you wear a sock with a tight elastic band all day and then you take it off. There’s a slight indentation for a brief period of time, but it corrects itself.”
