A condition resulting from excessive text messaging or use of a PDA keyboard. Symptoms range from stiffness to a complete inability to bend your thumb(s). Long term effects may include hitchhiking paralysis.
by Carpal Everything April 11, 2008
This is what the Wireless Blackberry users will get if they type too much on their blackberry. Disease of the thumbs and median nerve around the thumbs similar to that of Carpal Tunnel.
by Ginger Owens December 8, 2005
by Father Nature December 1, 2009
A syndrome where the thumbs can't be used to text on a smartphone due to over texting.
Unlike carpal tunnel, where the problems occur due to a median nerve in the wrist, Carpal Thumbel is due to a nerve pinching in the hand.
Unlike carpal tunnel, where the problems occur due to a median nerve in the wrist, Carpal Thumbel is due to a nerve pinching in the hand.
"Kara, why can't you type a text?"
"I can't move my thumbs! I have tingling, numbness, weakness, and pain in my thumbs! Could it be Carpal Tunnel!?"
"No. What you suffer from is Carpal Thumbel Syndrome."
"I can't move my thumbs! I have tingling, numbness, weakness, and pain in my thumbs! Could it be Carpal Tunnel!?"
"No. What you suffer from is Carpal Thumbel Syndrome."
by spaztic_nerd May 21, 2013