A man's thumb muscle is torn, as they often play the game.

Too old to play Candy Crush, a man from California was not aware that the tendon has torn his left thumb.


A man from California is experiencing a torn muscle tendon due to play on his smartphone too often, so it says in the report.
These injuries are usually very sick, but this guy looks like not feeling any pain while playing, according to his doctors.
"We need to be aware that some video games can be a kind of digital pain killers," so said Dr. Andrew Doan, one author of the report and head of the addiction research at the Naval Medical Center, San Diego. Doan added the game as pain killers often makes people did not heed.
Quoted from page livescience.com, Tuesday (04/14/2015), patients aged 29 years to the doctor when he felt sick and he left thumb hard to move it. He admitted to playing the game "Candy Crush Saga" every day for six to eight weeks. He played with his left hand over his right hand used to do other things. After undergoing an MRI, visible tendons that move the thumb function has been destroyed and he needs to undergo surgery.
Typically, a torn tendon in a place close to the bone, and the thinnest, but in this case, the torn tendon is the thickest, the real pain is more intense. This is surprising because the patient does not feel pain during the play. According to reports, this happens because when someone playing video games, they can feel the pleasure associated with natural pain killers produced by the body, according to Doan.
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