Accidents - Computers - Year 2008 - Wrist

Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,643
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.

Accidents - Age:

6-15 years old:	108
16-25 years old:	561
26-50 years old:	472
50+ years old:	500

Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records

Date: 12/17/2008	Age: 43 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Computers
PT MOVING HOME COMPUTER STATES WRIST PAIN SPRAIN RT WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/13/2008	Age: 22 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal
Product: Computers, Batteries
BURNED WRIST ON HOT LAP TOP COMPUTER BATTERY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 12/03/2008	Age: 52 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Computers
PT LIFTING A LAP TOP COMPUTER AND FEKLT A PULL IN LEFT WRIST STRAINED W RIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/13/2008	Age: 46 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Computers
WRIST STRAIN-AFTER PLAYING *** OVER THE WEEKEND-@ HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 11/11/2008	Age: 38 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Nerve Damage
Product: Computers
PT PLAYING 8-10 HOURS OF *** COMPUTER GAMES EVERYNIGHT USING A MOUSE NO W LOWER ARM AND WRIST HURT CARPAL TUNNEL RIGHT WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/19/2008	Age: 61 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Computers, Musical instruments, not electric or not battery operated
USES COMPUTER AT HOME & WORK, TAKES CLASSICAL GUITAR LESSON, WRIST PAIN DX: TENDINITIS WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/12/2008	Age: 36 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Computers
36YO WHITE MALE PLAYING ON COMPUTER-WRIST STARTED ACHING-THEN POPPED C/O PAIN, DX R WRIST SPRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 10/12/2008	Age: 24 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Computers
C/O RT WRIST/FOREARM PAIN X 1 WK; NO INJURY;USES COMPUTER A LOT; STRAIN RT WRIST, REPETITIVE DISORDER, RT LATERAL EPICONDYLITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 09/06/2008	Age: 9 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Computers
PT SUSTAINED WRIST CONTUSION AFTER ACCIDENTALLY HITTING HIS WRIST ON THE COMPUTER*
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/31/2008	Age: 18 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Nerve Damage
Product: Computers
PT PLAYING CHESS ON THE COMPUTER FOR A LONG TIME WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN PAIN IN WRIST CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/22/2008	Age: 41 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Nerve Damage
Product: Computers
PT BUMPED FINGER ON COMPUTER KEYBOARD, TO ER WITH PAIN, DX CARPAL TUNNE L SYNDROME/WRIST
Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA)

Date: 08/17/2008	Age: 14 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Computers
PT PLAYING ON COMPUTER, WENT TO STAND AND ARM GOT CAUGHT IN COMPUTER CO RD, HEARD A POP, NOW W/WRIST PAIN; WRIST INJURY
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 08/02/2008	Age: 86 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Computers
PT WAS PLAYING A *** COMPUTER BOWLING GAME AND FELL STRAINED RIGHT WRIS T
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/30/2008	Age: 14 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Nerve Damage
Product: Computers
C/O GRADUAL ONSET OF WRIST PAIN, DENEIS TRAUMA YET ADMITS SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME INFRONT OF THE COMPUTER>>CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/26/2008	Age: 58 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Computers
DX EARLY CTS, RT/REPETITIVE STESS INJ/CONSIDER EARLY PARKINSONISM: NO INJ TO WRIST/HAND, USES COMPUTER ALOT, HAS NUMBNESS/TINGL'G TO F W RAD
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/24/2008	Age: 16 years	Sex: Female	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Nerve Damage
Product: Computers
PT STATES SHE SPENDS HRS ON COMPUTER CONSTANT TYPING & DEVELOPED WRIST PAIN DX: CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME LEFT WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/23/2008	Age: 68 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Computers
REPORTS MECHANICAL FALL ONTO OUSTRETCHED HANDS&ALSO REPORTS USING THE C OMPUTER ALOT, NOW WITH WRIST PAIN >>SPRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/18/2008	Age: 16 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Computers, Tableware and accessories
PLAYING VIDEO GAME, GOT MAD & SLAMMED ARM INTO BOWL DX: WRIST LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 07/12/2008	Age: 32 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Computers
PT CUT ARM ON BROKEN COMPUTER SCREEN DX: LACERATION LEFT WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/23/2008	Age: 19 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Computers
ACCIDENTALLY CUT WRIST,?MECH, WHILE TRANSPORTING COMPUTER EQUIPMENT TOD AY >>LAC
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/21/2008	Age: 50 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Computers
PAIN AFTER LENGTHY COMPUTER USE DX: WRIST SPRAIN
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/20/2008	Age: 17 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Computers
RT WRIST SPRAIN: SITTING AT COMPUTER TYPING, USING MOUSE, WRIST BOTHERING HER, WENT TO "CRACK" WRIST, HURTING WORSE NOW
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/16/2008	Age: 14 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Laceration
Product: Computers, Windows and window glass, other than storm windows
1.2 CM LAC W/REPAIR: MULT SUPER. ABA'S: PLAYING X-BOX, LEANING AGAINST KITCHEN WINDOW, IT BROKE, CUTTING PROXIMAL WRIST, PALM
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 06/10/2008	Age: 75 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Computers
PT SITTING AT COMPUTER TODAY AND HAD SUDDEN ONSET OF WRIST PAIN. D:DEGE NERATIVE JOINT DISEASE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/28/2008	Age: 26 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Computers
PT HAS HAS BEEN DOING ALOT OF REPETITIVE TYPING ON THE COMPUTER FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS COMPLAINING OF PAIN IN LEFT WRIST TENDONITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/18/2008	Age: 44 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Computers
RIGHT WRIST STR. PT STRAINED WRIST WHEN TYPING ON COMPUTER KEYBOARD FOR A LONG TIME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 05/16/2008	Age: 20 years	Sex: Female	Race: Other
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion
Product: Computers
PT TRIPPED OVER PRINTER YESTERDAY AND NOW WITH CONTUSION ON WIRST AND P AIN ALONG RADIAL ASPECT. D: CONTUSIONS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/28/2008	Age: 47 years	Sex: Male	Race: Black/African American
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Other
Product: Computers
47 YOM C/O RIGHT WRIST PAIN AFTER PLAYING VIDEO GAMES FOR FIVE HOURS, D X: TENDONITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 04/05/2008	Age: 31 years	Sex: Female	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Computers
PT STRAINED L WRIST FROM OVER USE ON COMPUTER ATHOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/13/2008	Age: 81 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Nerve Damage
Product: Computers
PT USING COMPUTER ALOT SEVERAL HOURS A DAY OEVR THE LAST FEW WEEKS NOW WITH PAIN IN WRIST RADIATING INTO THUMB CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 03/04/2008	Age: 66 years	Sex: Male	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Fracture
Product: Computers
66YO M FRACTURED WRIST PT LOST BALANCE AT HOME FELL INTO COMPUTER *
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/28/2008	Age: 81 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Nerve Damage
Product: Computers
PT ON THE COMPUTER AND DEVELOPED PAIN IN WRIST AND UP INTO ELBOW CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 02/13/2008	Age: 24 years	Sex: Male	Race: White
Location: Home		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Computers
PT STRAINED R WRIST FROM USING COMPUTER AT HOME
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/30/2008	Age: 37 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public property		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Computers, Bowling
PT WAS PLAYING VIDEO GAMES AND ALSO BOWLING, TO ER WITH WRIST PAIN, DX SPRAINED WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

Date: 01/19/2008	Age: 21 years	Sex: Female	Race: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recorded		Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Wrist		Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain
Product: Computers
PT WAS TYPING AND FELT A POP IN RIGHT WRIST STRAINED WRIST
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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