This is why I hate so many of these electronic gadgets. You can’t believe how hard it was to find a cell phone without teeny tiny buttons:
Tennis players risk tennis elbow. Computer geeks get mouse wrist. Steve Maviglio, a preternaturally connected Sacramento political consultant, developed BlackBerry thumb.
A former press secretary for Gov. Gray Davis, Maviglio suffered a painful repetitive stress injury aggravated by compulsive use of the portable e-mail device that’s become an unlikely icon of status and chic.
Some hand experts worry that what’s now a boutique affliction among the gabbier circles of entertainment, marketing and politics will become more common as Americans tether themselves to increasingly diminutive and addictive electronic gadgetry.
