Texting while walking- a health hazard

The warning came too late for Barack Obama’s adviser. Don’t walk and text at the same time. Obama aide Valerie Jarrett fell off a Chicago curb several weeks ago while her thumbs were flying on on here blackberry. Harrett got off easy and didn’t need medical attention. But in an alert issued this week, the American College of Emergency Phsicians warns of the dange of more serious addicents involving oblivious texters. The ER doctors cite ricing reports from doctors around the country of injuries involving text-messaging pedestrians, bicylists, rollerblades, even motorist.

Most involves scrapes, cuts and sprains from texters who walked into lamppost or walls or killed by a pick up truck earlier this year whe she stepped off a curb while testing.

Unusual cases. A 15-year-old fell off her horse while texting, stuffering heard and back injuries, and a 13-year-old sufferd belly, leg and arm burns after texting her boyfriend while cooking noodles. Dr. James Adams, chairman of emergency medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, has treated minor inuries in my texters. “Common sense isn’t always common.” Sometimes even among doctors. “I have to admit   that I started text while I was driving and then I said, this is so stupid, so I stopped,” Adams added.