Get a grip: are smartphones ruining our hands?

Prof Roger Kneebone, a professor of surgical education at Imperial College London, has said students are arriving at medical school without the required manual dexterity to perform simple, necessary surgical tasks such as sewing up patients after operations.Comparing participants’ scores on the “smartphone addiction scale” with their “grip and pinch strengths”, the study found that “frequent smartphone users may be more prone to experience pain in their thumbs