Doctors have warned that capturing that perfect selfie can put avid selfie-takers at risk of developing “selfie elbow”, which is becoming a medical condition.



Like tennis elbow or golfer’s elbow, an addiction to taking selfies can cause a pain in the primary elbow and there has been a spurt in patients landing in the doctor’s office with the contion.
According to Jordan Metzl, a sports medicine physician at Hospital for Special Surgery in the US, the problem is overuse. Like carpal tunnel and tendinitis, it is the repetitive nature of the task that causes the aches. If you do something enough times – typing, texting, or taking selfies – it is going to have consequences.
“Basically, the interface between technology and the human body sometimes causes injuries of over-exuberance,” Metzl said, adding, “We used to see it with Blackberry phones -it was a real thing. People would get tendinitis in their thumb because they were on their Blackberries all the time.”