Are you an avid¹ selfie-taker? You are at risk of developing "selfie elbow" which is slowly becoming a real medical condition.

 

你是个狂热的自拍爱好者吗？那么你就面临着患上“自拍肘”的风险，而这一风险正逐渐地成为一项真正的医学问题。

 

Like tennis elbow or golfer's elbow, an addiction² to selfie-taking can cause a pain in your primary pic-snapping elbow, according to 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, bent³ in a weird⁴ 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 interface⁵ 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 Cosmopolitan⁶ report. 

 

The problem is simply overuse. 

 

"You get selfie elbow from taking too many selfies, as you put too much stress on the muscle and it irritates the area where the muscle comes off the bone and you get this inflammatory response," Metzl added. 

 

The condition can be treated by taking pain relievers like Advil or Motrin for the inflammation and putting on some ice as well as stretching the muscles.

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