Man ruptures tendon in his thumb by playing Candy Crush Saga, which enabled him to ignore the intense pain and keep on tapping

A man has ruptured a tendon in his thumb by playing Candy Crush Saga, making it one of the first touchscreen-gaming related injuries and putting BlackBerry thumb back on the map.

The Californian man played the game all day every day for between six and eight weeks using only his left hand, while conducting daily tasks with his right. The repetitive motions of touchscreen tapping caused a rupture, not at the tendon’s thinnest point as is normal, or at bone where this type of injury usually occurs, but at its thickest, according to a new report in the medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine.