Oh hey….so today I decided I would do cold compress on my hands to see if that made a difference and it did. In a not so lovely way. My hands cramped even more! Here is hoping heat applied on them tomorrow will sort this all out.

Still, I am not complaining, they are way better than on Sunday. As I have continued this journey of phone breaks and actually realizing how often I use my hands, it is pretty clear that I overwork and to the bone (no pun intended….okay pun totally intended).

This morning, I headed off to my cardio kickboxing class which I love so much but I also spend 45 minutes after, lifting. Lifting is not exactly "strain-less" when it comes to hand activity. Then throughout the day I was completing assignments for my online course that required me to be cutting, scrunching, drawing, dying. So while the phone maybe be just one small way I am overusing my hands, there are so many other ways.

So am I old? Is that basically what this little "test" will show me? That I am old and my hands are just going to be like this. It is even scarier to think that we will be the first generation that will be able to show how cell phone usage has affected us since most of us have had phones since we were 10. Sure my parents didn't have cell phones in their hands when they were 10 but its not like they were just sitting at home sitting on their thumbs (pun intended…again).

Researchers, it is time to start studying our youth and following them into adulthood because I need to know if hand pains will be more common at a young age because of their usage. Perhaps that can be my thesis paper when I become Dr. Mavis.

Take care of your hands and listen to your body. Hand therapy has been helping my realize I am not alone in this weird premature hand pain thing I've got going on. While others suggest just getting a bigger phone so it won't be as small in my hand, I suggest putting the phone down every once in awhile. Believe me, the Instagram app you just checked 5 minutes ago probably has one or two new photos; perhaps check it every 3 hours.

Well, you know what I am off to do….read a book!

Until next time! XOXO