New York Spa Offers "Blackberry Thumb" Massages

The Dorit Baxter New York Day Spa is offering Blackberry Thumb and Tech Neck massages to help you release the muscular tension brought on by your gadgets. For real? Yes, it's for real. The city's high-end spas are selling fixes for such ailments as "BlackBerry thumb", "tech neck", "tech hand" and "cell phone clog". (Don't ask me what cell phone clogs is, I have no idea.) According to Dr. Thomas Scilaris, an Upper East Side orthopedic surgeon, these are repetitive-stress injuries that people once got in their 50s and 60s. Now they are afflicted in their 20s and 30s, all thanks due to our obsessive need for being connected to the digital world. Located in the heart of Manhattan on West 57th Street near 5th Avenue, Dorit Baxter's New York Day Spa recommends aching techies get these treatments done weekly. The service is offered at $59 per half-hour for each, which combines hot compresses and acupressure to relieve inflammation and "pins and needles".

When I was a kid, it was called "Sega Thumb". If you were a video game playing junkie, the skin on your thumbs would literally start peeling away from all the button smashing on your Sega Genesis controller. Eventually your thumbs would calis over to help protect you from an extra spirited game of Madden. Today, people are clicking their mouse, scrolling their iPod wheel, typing away on their laptops and txting on their cell phones. It's no wonder that all this small joint movement is beginning to catch-up with us. Remember, ergonomic exercises can be very beneficial to preventing the aches and pains related to Repetitive Strain Injuries such as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. But when even these exercises don't seem to relieve you, then perhaps it's time to put the gadget down. Yes, put it down like a bad drug and stroll on over to The New York Day Spa and give your ailing BlackBerrry Thumb a little T.L.C. for a change. After all, if you have enough cash to drop on a BlackBerry, you can afford a $60 thumb massage.

One spa receptionist remembers the first time she got a call asking if they offered BlackBerry finger massages. She thought it was something dirty and slammed down the phone. I don't have BlackBerry thumb, but the meterosexual in me does love a good full body spa massage. It's not gay. It's heaven! A massage at a good spa is like sex...the longer it goes on, the better it gets.

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