Hand surgeon Dr. Mark Ciaglia told FOX5 that he is seeing more patients 40 years old and younger dealing with the painful inflammation and stiffness in their joints.
And it is the 23 hours adults spend texting and the seven hours children are gaming each day that are dooming our generation to develop arthritis, warns experts.
'With the advent of texting and video games and excessive use of computers and typing you're wearing the joints out sooner so we're actually seeing a shift in the demographics of patients that get the arthritis because they're just wearing their joints out so much sooner,' Ciaglia, who works at Woodlands Center for Specialty Surgery in Texas, said.
Experts have said that developing arthritis from texting, emailing and playing games has to do with the continuous motion of your fingers, combined with poor posture.