Addicted to clicking selfie? You may develop a ‘Selfie elbow’

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.