It happens to all of us, we get addicted to a game and any downtime we get is eaten up by it. Unfortunately for one 29-year-old man, from San Diego, California having perhaps too much down time or just too much fun (Update: he had just left the military and was in between jobs), who went to the doctor complaining of pain in his thumb. It was found that he tore a tendon in his thumb after playing ‘Candy Crush Saga’ on his smartphone all day for six to eight weeks. Alas his ‘saga’ ended with chronic pain in his left thumb and loss of active motion.
An MRI (magnetic resonance imaging ) scan was conducted and it was found that he would need surgery to [...]