KNITTERS5 CRAMP.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4003, 9 August 1915, Page 7

KNITTERS 5 CRAMP.

Too much wartime knitting and sewing is responsible for the appearance in England of a malady which can bo compared with, writer’s cramp or tennis elbow. 'The physicians call it “knitter’s neuritis.” It affects the upper arm and shoulder rather than the fingers, and seems only to afflict those, who knit with difficulty, not having practised the art in their youth. Tlie only treatment is to give up knitting indefinitely. “ When any untrained set of mu,soles is suddenly called upon to repeat indefinitely a complex and unaccustomed sequence of movements,” says a London physician, “a spasmodic paralysis is very likely to develop. Knitter’s neuritis begins with the worker’s feeling that the usual wrist and finger movement, cannot ho followed with the customary ease. Then the muscles get stiff,. and in the later stage develop a spasmodic cramp as soon as the knitting needles are taken into the fingers. Although the‘fingers are thus affected whenever an attempt is made to knit, there is no inter-feronc® with other varieties of finger movement.”