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Popular gadgets may make painful Christmas presents


SINGAPORE - Hoping Santa will send you an iPod, a Nintendo Wii or the latest mobile phone this Christmas?

Be careful what you wish for: it could come "painfully" true.
Sore thumbs, inflamed elbows and stiff shoulders are among the musco-skeletal injuries linked to excessive use of the popular high-tech games and gadgets that could be under the tree.
"This is a pretty big issue, especially as more and more people are using gadgets a lot more," said William Lenihan from Singapore's Osteopathic Pain Relief Center.