{"id":1029199,"date":"2026-08-17T08:38:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029199"},"modified":"2026-08-17T09:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:34:40","slug":"long-laptop-smartphone-use-linked-to-rise-in-carpal-tunnel-syndrome-among-youngsters-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/17\/long-laptop-smartphone-use-linked-to-rise-in-carpal-tunnel-syndrome-among-youngsters-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"Long laptop, smartphone use linked to rise in carpal tunnel syndrome among youngsters: Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Long hours on laptops, repetitive wrist movements and prolonged smartphone use are increasingly taking a toll, with doctors reporting more cases of Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). \u201cWe are seeing a marked rise in young professionals coming in with advanced nerve compression, often after ignoring early warning signs for months,\u201d said Dr Pratham R Bysani, consultant neurosurgeon at Vasavi Hospitals. <\/p>\n<p>CTS occurs when the median nerve, which passes through a narrow passage in the wrist called the carpal tunnel, becomes compressed. Patients commonly have burning pain or pins-and-needles in their hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Long hours on laptops, repetitive wrist movements and prolonged smartphone use are increasingly taking a toll, with doctors reporting more cases of Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). \u201cWe are seeing a marked rise in young professionals coming in with advanced nerve compression, often after ignoring early warning signs for months,\u201d said Dr Pratham R Bysani, consultant neurosurgeon at Vasavi Hospitals. CTS occurs when the median nerve, which passes through a narrow passage in the wrist called the carpal tunnel, becomes compressed. Patients commonly have burning pain or pins-and-needles in their hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029209,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029199\/revisions\/1029209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}