With the issue about the link between excessive cell phone use and brain damaged still unsettled, orthopedic specialists have now reported that another body part - the elbow - may also be bearing the brunt of prolonged mobile phone use. 

Towards that end, the doctors have recognized a condition that is being called "cell phone elbow," or the cubital tunnel syndrome, whereby a crucial nerve in the arm of the patients gets damaged due to 'too tight and too long' bending of their elbows in a particular position while using the phone.

Elaborating on the "cell phone elbow" condition, Dr. Peter Evans - Director of the Hand and Upper Extremity Center at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio - during the course of holding the cell phone to their ears, the users stretch the small finger-controlling nerve, beneath the funny bone.

Evans said that staying in that particular stretched-nerve position for a long time while chatting on the phone, results in the "choking of the blood supply to the nerves. It makes the nerves short-circuit, leading to a tingling in the ring and small finger."

Doctors opine that the elbow is "not naturally designed" to be hyper-flexed - that is, held in a flexed position at a greater-than-90-degrees angle - for longer than ten minutes at a given time!