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Gamer’s thumb: a product of the digital entertainment revolution

bjsports · 2025-10-10 · canonical JSON source

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The global mobile gaming market has exploded to over 3 billion users worldwide, with average daily playing times exceeding 2–3 hours. 1 This digital entertainment revolution has inadvertently created a new clinical entity that clinicians are increasingly encountering (ie, ‘gamer’s thumb’), which can be classified as a specific pattern of De Quervain’s tenosynovitis—directly attributed to prolonged mobile gaming activities.