"Disco felon": medical condition caused by

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Band name!

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Neat.

I once treated a young woman with bilateral ulnar neuropathy that she had because of the way she rested her arms on her chair while playing video games. She played a lot of video games. Thankfully the fix was easy: maybe don’t play for quite so many hours each day, and when you do play, maybe don’t sit that way.

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Reminds me of the baddies from Mystery Men.

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I used to get neuropathy on the tops of my feet from kneeling to weed in a particular pair of shoes. Wear different shoes and weed for shorter periods was the suggestion my doctor made…

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What’s next? PornHub … elbow?

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Ooh! Ooh! I had that. The funny bone is particularly annoying to self-diagnose because it pops out pain in all sorts of random spots along the arm where the problem isn’t. I treated it with these

which my cruel roommates insisted on calling my “elbow warmers”. The pads were a magic bullet that let me type again.

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Just think: in a single person’s misspent musical life, they may suffer from Disco Felon, Punk Knuckle, Metal Head, Jam Band Dementia, Prog Bottom, Hip Hop Hopping Hip, and Terminal Rickroll. Popular music is a trap kids…not even once.

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Oh, snap.

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Tennis balls.
Don’t ask.

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“Seek medical attention immediately if you see symptoms of Saturday Night Fever.”

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I called the doctor on the telephone
Said doctor, doctor, please, ah ah ah
I got this feeling
Rocking and a’reeling
Tell me, what can it be, is it some new disease
They call it boogie fever

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Oh YEAH!!!???

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OTOH, people who kneel to pray a lot get infrapatellar bursitis so…

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Felony.

Seriously?

shorter periods of time, to clarify.

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