Selfie addicts, beware! Constantly takings too many pictures of yourself may cause you to develop a ‘selfie elbow’, doctors have warned.Like tennis elbow or golfer’s elbow, a dedication to selfie-taking is landing people in the doctor’s office.Be warned if you are an avid selfie-taker since capturing that perfect selfie can put you at risk of developing ‘selfie elbow’ which is slowly becoming a real medical condition, says a report.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.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.‘Maybe, people should alternate their arms - start spreading the load,’ Metzl pointed out.