Chevrolet Impala -Serious Health Problems

Warning: The high effort steering in the Chevrolet Impala causes adults fingers to bend and twist to conform to the steering wheel contour. The dynamic forces generated in turning the wheel is responsible for L-4,L-5 damage, carpal tunnel, tennis elbow, migraine headaches, ruptured disks on our necks, painful shoulders, bent and twisted fingers, loss of thumb use. Other vehicles with this damaging steering include, but not limited to, Chrysler 300, Nissan, Saturn, Buick, Pontiac, Dodge Durango, Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Cavalier, and many more.

This Blog identifies a new Major Monumental World Health Discovery of the Magnitude of that of the World not being flat, identification of gravity, etc. I do not know the words to use that can come close to describing all the health improvements that will be derived for humanity from this discovery; it is of major significance and will serve humankind forever. The identification of our skeletal system having a material creep threshold will result in unlimited benefits to humanity because this is the true root cause of adult and early childhood early childhood physically induced arthritis, physical ailments, and chronic pain. It is the answer to why our children's fingers become bend and twist from playing video games, coloring, and why adults fingers bend and twist from during vehicles with high effort steering system and develop such chronic pain. It is the answer to the ongoing lengthy joint investigation between industry and OSHA to discover the many health problems in industry.

Our body is a perfectly engineered system designed by nature. Neither over nor under designed. Anything that exceeds our physical capabilities exceeds our design capabilities and results in damage. We design tools and processes that up until now have not been recognized as exceeding our design limitations and cause surface wear on our bones and damage to our soft tissues. We design tools that apply diagonal forces to our knuckles. Knuckles designed for vertical movement. Tools too heavy for the hands to use without inflicting accumulative microscopic damage to the molecular bonding of the bone cells, thus exceeding the material creep threshold and resulting in permanent surface damage. Believe it or not but supporting physicians believe this is the cause of juvenile arthritis.

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O What is so important about this blog? This identifies the root cause of children developing permanently bent and twisted fingers from playing video games, adults developing the bent and twisted fingers from driving "stiff", "high effort steering" vehicles like the Chevrolet-Impala, the development of adults serious physical health issues from such vehicles and physical arthritis. Arthritis, which plagues millions of people that can be prevented. The destructive process involves dynamic forces and bone calcification.

O How Can This Information Help Me? It will identify the dynamic forces in the destructive processes that result in soft tissue and skeletal system damage. Those destructive forces and processes combined which result in deformed fingers in our children and us as adults, plus serious physical health issues. By knowing what causes the deformities, you will know how to prevent new deformities and physical health issues.

O What Can I Do to Help Stop these deformities and health issues? Verify your deformities in the pictures shown in the yahoo website immediately below and this blog your reading. You can click on the picture you wish to view, then right click on your computer mouse button and save the picture to your computer and then enlarge it to read the important notations. Then call the toll free numbers below at the CPSC and NHTSA and file a complaint. They are waiting for your calls.

1). Pictures of children's deformed fingers from playing video games are shown at: http://photos.yahoo.com/miketomich - Nintendo Album

2.) Pictures of adults bent and twisted fingers from driving stiff steering vehicles are shown at http://photos.yahoo.com/miketomich in the Steering album

3). Description of cause and effects of the finger deformities is described at http://videofingers.blogstream.com

Note: President George W. Bush, the CPSC, the Video Gaming Manufacturers, and Crayola Crayons are fully aware of the permanent bending and twisting caused to the soft fingers of all young children from playing these video games and toddlers coloring. Additionally, George W. Bush, the Automotive Industry, and our NHTSA are fully aware of the serious health issues caused to adults from driving vehicles with the "high effort steering" systems such as the Impala (very bad), Durango, Mustang, Ford 500, Chrysler 300, Saturn, Intrepid, Chevrolet pickups, Explorers, Trailblazers, Astro vans, Nissan Ultima, Pontiac Grand Am (very bad), and just about every other late model vehicle. My Massey-Ferguson 1250 tractor steers easier than my Impala.

Note: President George W. Bush proposed to congress language that could prevent people from suing the automotive manufacturers. Per a Detroit News article (December 24, 2005) twenty-six Attorneys General concerned about this action signed a letter to George W. Bush urging him to abandon this language that would prevent people from suing the automakers. Citing it would put undue financial strain on the states.

* Call the US Consumer Product Safety Commission Toll Free 1-800-638-2772. Per congressman Dale Kildee (810-239-1437) Email User - The CPSC is now monitoring incoming calls for complaints about children's bent and twisted fingers from video games . They are now monitoring incoming calls for this problem.

- Chairman Hal Stratton (301) 504-7900 Email User

- Commissioner Thomas Moore (310) 504-7902 Email User

- Commissioner Nancy Nord (301) 504-7901 Email User

- Jason Goldsmith PhD (310) 504-7262.

* Call the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration They are now monitoring incoming calls for this problem

- Ronald Medford 1-888-327-4236

* Call the Center for Disease Control 1600 Clifton Road, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30333

- Director Julie Louise Gerberding (404) 639-3311, (800) 311-3435

Nintendo 1-800-255-3700 Sony 1-877-865-7669 MS 1-800-624-7676

The Factor's are:

The Human Skeletal System has a Material Creep Threshold - Force Tolerance Level.

* Why hasn't this been recognized in the history of our world? I don't know. However, this is the root cause of human arthritis and many more health problems leading to chronic pain in the back, shoulder, arms, neck, fingers, thumbs, hand, and wrist. It is responsible for carpal tunnel, herniated-ruptured disk, weight gain, and inability to sleep. Further, it is responsible for too many operations such as on the neck, wrist, joint replacements in hips, knees, fingers and much more. One thing to remember in reading this is each force and bone hardness (calcification) varies with each person, and forces internally, externally generated have a disastrous effect on the soft tissue and skeletal system of our bodies. Up until now, the mechanical aspect of the degenerative process on the body has not been realized.

* The one most common and popular denominator for the recent discovery of children's bones becoming bent and twisted from playing video games, adults finger deformities and the multitude of health problems and chronic pain is caused by the external and internal: "Forces experienced in driving a vehicle with a stiff, hard, heavy, sport, "high effort steering" system, and children's playing video games when their fingers are too soft, as well as coloring and computer mouse use with soft fingers." This is the root cause of our problems. Humankind has never discovered this since the beginning of humankind.

* What causes young children's fingers to silently and rapidly develop permanently bent and twisted fingers while playing video games, using a computer mouse, coloring, and also developing serious restrictions in their natural physical hand and finger functionality?

* Why do they develop early physically generated arthritis, and their fingers bending backwards at the first/second knuckle?

* Why are children and young adults witnessing the outward bending of their thumbs, developing twisted knuckles, and an array of other finger deformities always thought to be restricted to the elderly arthritis problems?

* Why has the adult population seen such an increase in operations for herniated disk in the lower back and neck? Why have these serious operations become such a normal event and almost expected? Where did carpal tunnel come from? Seems like everyone has it. It is almost like a plaque now. Why do we get tennis elbow when we do not play tennis? Why do people suffer from neck pain, arms-hands-fingers getting numb, shoulder paralysis requiring physical therapy and serious operations that leave physical movement restrictions?

* Pictures of injured children are shown in the Nintendo album at: http://photos.yahoo.com/miketomich

* Pictures of adult deformed pictures are shown in the Steering album at http://photos.yahoo.com/miketomich

Table of Contents (Glossary is at the bottom)

* Health insurance costs have sky rocketed over the past 12 years. The automotive industry with it's "high effort steering" systems, and other design flaws I've made then aware of, which are not compatible with the natural functional capabilities of the human skeletal system are responsible for the chronic shoulder-back-neck and wrist pains, cause of the carpal tunnel plague, headaches, shoulder, back, neck, carpal tunnel operations, believe it or not "hip replacements because the hips are the fulcrum points for force delivery to the "high effort steering" systems and more.

1. What is the Root Cause of All these Problems?

2. What does this mean?

3. Give me an example of how a child's finger becomes twisted when playing video games.

4. Why does my 5-year-old child have bent fingers but my 12-year-old does not have bent fingers and they both play video games?

5. I compared my adult fingers to my child's fingers and they both appear bent and twisted. Isn't this a natural occurring event in humankind?

6. The delivery of the forces from your body, which uses the hips joints and the L-4, L-5 vertebrae as the fulcrum points for the force delivery, is the most damaging and hazardous process I have experienced in driving my Impala.

7. What other processes can cause children's fingers to become bent and twisted?

8. At what age are children's bones calcified (hard) enough to withstand the forces generated in playing video games?

9. What went wrong in the design of the Impala, Durango, Saturn, pickup trucks, Nissan, Grand Am, Crown Vic, Cavalier, Dodge Charger, and the Whole World Wide Automotive Industry?

10. What went wrong with the design of the video games, coloring crayons, and computers?

11. What do physicians say about the children's deformed fingers from playing video games and the adults health issues from driving the "high effort steering" systems?

12. Workmen's Compensation Claims * Politicians-Agencies and their Help or Lack of

13. Politicians-Agencies and their Help or Lack of Help

14. What does Nintendo, Sony, MS, After Market Controller Manufacturers say to me?

15. Are Video Games and High Effort Steering Systems Causing Children and Adults to gain weight? What do you think?

16. Help from Senator Joe Lieberman.

17. The US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. For the sake of your children's health, call one or all of these people listed.

18. More Details about the NHTSA and My Communications

19. More Details about the CPSC and My Communications

20. More Details about the Center for Disease Control and My Communications

21. Serious Warnings/Issues about "Child Day Care Centers" and State Rules about Video Game Use by Small Children.

22. Questions, Comments about this Blog

23. My Book Explains It All

24. Conclusion

25. Disclaimer

26. Glossary

Health insurance costs have sky rocketed over the past 12 years. Physical therapy facilities have experienced an increase in treatments for shoulder, neck and back by 300 % to 400 % in three years. Health care costs were in 1980 - 246 million, 1990 - 696 million, 2003 - 1.7 trillion, 2005 - 1.9 trillion and began to rise rapidly after 2000. The per capita of 1990 was $2,737 by 2003 it was $5.670. Per www.rxlist.com/top200a.htm there were 92,719,975 prescriptions for the pain medication called Vicodin (Hydrocodone) in 2005. Acetamiwophen w/codine 16,079,867. Percocet and a couple others totaled 63,672,825 prescriptions. My forte is not prescriptions, but I do know from experience that pain medication has different names and I'm sure there are a lot more in the list that I didn't recognize. The total for the ones I did recognize on the list is 172,462,667 prescriptions. Now, that is a lot for pain pills to put into our people. Even though physicians have been refraining from writing prescriptions for needed pain medication to overcome the chronic pain so many people are suddenly developing, the number of prescriptions continues to rise due to more population.

1. What is the Root Cause of All these Problems? The reasons why millions of people are developing and have suffered from arthritis through the history of mankind, suffering from physically induced pain, deformed fingers, crippling arthritis, raising the cost of medical so high, is because humankind has never recognized the fact that the "Human Skeletal System does have a Material Creep Threshold Force Tolerance Level." This is the root cause of the problems. Humankind has never discovered this since the beginning of humankind.

2. What does this mean? It means that the delivery of force by the human body is a factor (along with vibration, shock loading, bone calcification, etc) that must be considered because the bones have a material creep threshold that varies with various force delivery processes. Thus, the material creep threshold allows the dynamic forces which exceed its material creep threshold to cause permanent and accumulative changes by elongating the molecular bonding of the bone cells. Every time a dynamic force is generated or received a permanent change is incurred. These changes are accumulative. The same applies to receipt of forces. Forces move in a straight line. It means bones can and do bend and twist from dynamic forces, and have been doing so since the beginning of humankind, however our lifestyles have changed and the dynamic forces which are an unnatural damaging force, is readily present in the young children grasping the video controllers with their white knuckle dead grips, and adults delivering the quick force to overcome the resistance of their steering wheel on those vehicles which have the tight, stiff, high effort steering systems. These processes generate a shock load which adds to the dynamic force which in turn is delivered from the hands of adults drivers to their hips and lumbar region of the spine. This results in the adults chronic lumbar pain problems.

3. Give me an example of how a child's finger becomes twisted when playing video games. When a young child grasps the game controller, their finger is grasping a surface on the controller that is not parallel to the surface of their knuckle. Because the knuckle is resting on the controller surface at an angle (not making full contact when delivering the gripping force), the finger knuckle has a natural tendency to twist and make full contact with the controller surface and thereby apply the forces evenly to the knuckles. The twisting of a finger to make full contact with the gripping surface of an object is a natural occurring event resulting in bending and twisting of the finger/knuckles. This is present in many processes such as driving a lawn tractor, hand tools, lifting, almost any gripping process in which the gripping surface is off parallel to a bones knuckle and of which the contact surface rests between the knuckles. Note: These injuries are accumulative.

4. Why does my 5-year-old child have bent fingers but my 12-year-old does not have bent fingers and they both play video games? The hardness of bones is a factor (calcification vs. un-calcified bones) The younger the child the softer their bones (lower "material creep threshold force tolerance levels") and the easier their finger bones yield to the forces generated in the game playing process. Therefore, your child of 12-years-old started at an age when their bones were harder (more calcified) and thusly their bones didn't yield to the pressures generated in the playing process because their bones were harder, they have a high material creep threshold and were able to withstand higher forces.

5. I compared my adult fingers to my child's fingers and they both appear bent and twisted. Isn't this a natural occurring event in humankind? No, it is not. In 2001 when I finally identified the dynamic forces that were generated when turning the stiff, tight and heavy, steering wheel on my 2000 Chevrolet-Impala, I checked with Impala drivers and they all had the same bending and twisting I had in my fingers, knuckles and the outward bending of the thumbs. There were not that many Impala's sold at that time so I did not have an abundance of subjects to study. I didn't realize at the time the magnitude of the discovery.

5.1 I did not realize this would develop into identification of the causes of arthritis and so many other health issues. I thought it was an Impala only issue and since there weren't that many I didn't focus on other vehicles because I really wasn't sure I had a total understanding of everything. The Impala drivers I did see had deformities that were proportional to the miles driven. Rather than take pictures of straight fingers in 2001, I sought bent fingers, now I can't find straight fingers. Since June of 2001, there have been many Impala's sold. Each driver I have looked at has the same deformities as I have. And because these tight, stiff, heavy, sporty, feel-the-road, take charge of your car, high effort steering systems are on so many vehicles today….I see such damage everywhere.

5.2 The bent and twisted fingers shown at http://photos.yahoo.com/miketomich "Steering Album" are now commonplace. Everyone has them. Bent and twisted fingers from driving these high effort steering systems are everywhere now. Just ask yourself if you have a sore shoulder, headaches, lower back pain, lumpy feeling in your Verabrae between your shoulder blades, carpal tunnel, tennis elbow, sore wrist, reduction of gripping strength (thumbs bent outward), sore thumbs, etc. If your steering wheel is shiny and slippery, hard to hold, texture has worn off…then you have a steering system which is requiring a high effort force delivery from your skeletal system to get the steering wheel to move. Every time a high effort steering system steering wheel is moved, just the slightest amount, a shock load is sent to your skeletal system from your fingers through to your hip joints and the lumbar region of your vertebrae. This is extremely hazardous to the soft tissue disk in your back, joints, etc.

6 The delivery of the forces from your body, which uses the hips joints and the L-4, L-5 vertebrae as the fulcrum points for the force delivery, is the most damaging and hazardous process I have experienced in driving my Impala. I have found this process to be the most damaging human generated force, required to operate the vehicle, which is causing all the problems mentions thus far and will be mentioned later in my writings.

6.1 There are other serious factors that encourage and expedite damage to the skeletal and soft tissues; to mention a few, driveline vibration, seating, and road noise (bumps). Whenever you apply the force to turn the Impala steering wheel, each and every vibration, road noise, etc. that is present in that steering wheel delivers a shock load to the skeletal and soft tissues of the body, thus further adding to the damaging dynamic forces. To see straight fingers today you must find someone who does not drive and children who do not play video games.

7. What other processes can cause children's fingers to become bent and twisted? Any process that generates a dynamic force, which exceeds the "material creep threshold force tolerance level" of the calcification of their bones. Coloring! Unfortunately, young children attending Child Day Care Centers are introduced to video games and coloring to encourage creativity and muscle co-ordination. However, sadly as it is, the children's bones are too soft for these processes and their finger bones and knuckles become permanently bent and twisted. A young child conducting the process of coloring with wax coloring crayons also generates dynamic forces because their bones are so soft and un-calcified that lower forces are only required to cause the deformities, which is why you will see children that have not played games, having bent and twisted fingers. The surfaces of the crayons provide a gripping surface that is off parallel to the children's knuckles. The same as video game controller surfaces. Next time you look at a box of crayons, check to see how many are broken. Children generate a lot of force, which results in the crayon breaking because they have to grip the slippery paper wrap and press hard enough to overcome resistance built into the wax. Their soft bones just cannot take it. The children do a lot of coloring in the Day Care Centers.

7.1 The parents of a young 3-year-old child named Alyssa allowed her to use their computer for gaming rather than Nintendo, Sony, etc. Thinking as many parents do, that the computer was a safer source for education, coordination, and gaming they didn't realize that her soft un-calcified bones in small hands and fingers had to stretch over the surface the mouse and were in a stretched position for force delivery to push the buttons. Therefore, her fingers were subjected to dynamic forces every time she moved the mouse (which was too heavy for her low material creep threshold) and dynamic forces generated every time she had to push a buttons. Not that it matters, but the same size mouse used in the hands of basketball stars are also used in the hands of small 2-3-year-old children. If your child attends Day Care Facilities, you have the right to tell them not to allow your child to use crayons until your physician tells you your child's bones have a higher material creep threshold capable of accepting the forces generated in coloring, gaming, etc.

8. At what age are children's bones calcified (hard) enough to withstand the forces generated in playing video games? Not one person can give an answer to this question. A majority have indicated that they feel the children's bones are soft all through puberty. A study must be conducted which is beyond my financial capability.

9. What went wrong in the design of the Impala, Durango, Saturn, pickup trucks, Nissan, Grand Am, Crown Vic, Cavalier, Dodge Charger, and the Whole World Wide Automotive Industry? See #10

10. What went wrong with the design of the video games, coloring crayons, and computers? Simply put…the designers did not consider the human physical tolerance levels of their various customers. If a child would have designed the game controllers, I bet they would have been smaller. If a small framed person had designed the Impala steering, it might have been made easier to turn. Per the Arkansas State Police, the Chevrolet Impala was approved for police duty by the Michigan State Police (MSP won't respond to my communications). I believe one of the factors in approval was the steering feel for handling/response. I have found deformed fingers, and physical health issues are quicker to appear on small framed officers. With the larger framed officers it takes longer to appear, but it eventually does. Therefore, if you are a person who spends a lot of time driving, you should by default have some of the ymptoms mentioned thus far. Your first, most noticeable problem will be the bending and twisting of your fingers and knuckles (shown at http://photos.yahoo.com/miketomich - Steering album).

11. What do physicians say about the children's deformed fingers from playing video games and the adults health issues from driving the "high effort steering" systems? Most physicians I have discussed this with agree with my results and support my efforts in getting this message to the public. However, they ask I do not identify them and I honor their request. I traveled to Illinois to see a child hand surgeon at world a famous hospital with my young 5-year-old grandson. The surgeon could not tell me what was normal or not normal regarding finger straightness. He indicated that he would have to study the hands of 250 to 300 children to determine the variance and then identify the normal (mean). He would have to study the same number of men and women to determine what was normal for each sex. I took my grandson to another hand specialist two weeks later in December of 2003. This nice young 30-year-old hand surgeon had fingers that were seriously bent and twisted more than my grandson's fingers were. He had grown up playing video games as a child, and now his fingers were even more complicated from having driven a "high effort steering" system vehicle. I only had about 15 minutes but we covered a lot of territory in that time. I left him a copy of my research notes so he could truly understand the theory behind my contentions/results. Unfortunately, I never saw him again. The nice young doctor never noticed his deformities until I identified them to him that day. I guess we take our fingers for granted

12. Workmen's Compensation Claims People that drive the high effort steering systems such as taxi, police duty, salesmen, etc. will develop the physical health issues identified above. If their vehicles were a choice of their superiors, I believe they will develop deformities and health ailments that will prevent them from conducting physical labor. Myself, I have loss the full use of my thumbs. I have serious difficulty gripping with the thumb because of the outward bending of the thumbs away from the hand. My fingers and knuckles are twisted and make it difficult to carry any weight because the knuckles become painful and because of the twisting, they will not carry/hold weight

13. Politicians-Agencies and their Help or Lack of Help. The State of Michigan State political leaders want a scientific study conducted by a medical agency before they can help with this. The Federal politicians say this has to be a grass roots effort. Three state politicians in Michigan tried to help me. They sent a questioner out to many people that I had previously been in contact with asking their opinion of my discovery about the children's deformed fingers. They responded favorably and indicating a study should be conducted on my contentions. However, the three state politicians were somehow discouraged with helping me and ended writing me a letter of support, which I am grateful for…they tried. My objective was to get a study conducted by an agency...but I never had luck with that. The rest of the state politicians said my discovery of the children's deformed fingers had to be handled by the Federal politicians. The Federal Politicians said it has to be handled as a grass roots effort. Insurance companies for the Child Day Care Centers discredited me and made fun of my contentions. I was surprised with this response; however, I later realized they were concerned about the liability. Rather than encourage my discovery to prevent further permanent damage to our children they chose to downplay it. What they don't realize is not only did they continue to allow the deformities to continue with our children, they acted as if this was going to go away.….as if it weren't real. A very disappointing decision by them for our young children.

14. What does Nintendo, Sony, MS, After Market Controller Manufacturers say to me? Initial contact with Nintendo, Sony, and MS was made in the spring/summer of 2002. A very detailed 9-page report was sent in November 2002. The report identified the causes and effects in detail. I received letters from the manufacturers stating there wasn't a problem with their games and that they took pride in helping their customers. Nintendo said they were taking this matter seriously and sending my paperwork to their main office in Japan for a preliminary study. The results would be available the end of June 2002 and sent to me. This was very encouraging until I received a copy from their legal department arguing that I was the only person to complain about children's finger deformities in all of their history, millions of units having been sold. Sony replied with denials of a problem also. The manufacturers replied to the Consumers Product Safety Commission in Washington denying a problem of children's deformities. The same from the Michigan Attorney General, and the Washington State Attorney General's office. I wonder how many injured children have been added to the injured list since April 2002 when I first contacted them?

* The Giants - Video and Automotive Industry are aware of the problems. The manufacturers are aware of the children developing finger deformities. They know the seriousness and the severe consequences. This is not a mystery to them, I will bet you they have stopped their children from playing videogames, as well as all the people I have contacted. I approached my local TV stations, as well as the national networks, and specialty producers, PBS stations, etc. I think they rejected the idea of helping me get this message to our people for the same reason my local TV station returned all my documentation. When I called the manager said; "You're taking on all the giants (meaning the auto and video industry)". I did not get the TV coverage so I could let the people of Saginaw, Flint, Bay City, and Midland know of the children's deformed fingers. As mentioned previously, I contacted the manufacturers every time I made an additional supportive discovery.

15. Are Video Games and High Effort Steering Systems Causing Children and Adults to gain weight? What do you think?

A quote from a dear friend of mine, Connie, a retired teacher; "I wish someone would research the anxiety level children feel when they play games for hours. Teaching them has become extremely difficult, as their concentration spans are so short." Do our children experience frustration and lack of fulfillment from playing these fast-paced games, do they lose their patience? After playing video games, do our children have a feeling of lack of fulfillment? I see the frustration in their faces when I watch in despair as they become frustrated with the never-ending crusade to reach a new plateau in the game. Their walking away from the game feeling unfulfilled, with anger and lack of attention to other work

15.1 Do our children turn to eating carbohydrates and fats for the feeling of fulfillment? Is this why our children are gaining weight, or should we blame it on the fast foods? I believe they do, not only from the mental frustrations of the games but the lack of accomplishment, and discomfort.

15.2 Discomfort? Yes, you bet, ever present. Children do not have comprehension of pain. In watching them I believe they are with discomfort after playing. The vibration and death grips numb the hands when they play. These same vibrations radiate through the skeletal system to their fulcrum point, which is supporting their skeletal system and hand movements. You just watch them. Scholars wonder what is happening to their brain functionality. You can look at their emotional reaction and see the changes. We are intelligent people. We can see for ourselves the damaging physical and lack of concentration consequences.

15.3 Adults are also gaining weight. I gained 25 lbs after driving my Impala with the "high effort steering" system. Initially I didn't realize that the Impala's stiff steering system was too much for the physical capabilities of the human skeletal system. I didn't realize the delivery of the forces necessary to overcome the steering wheel's initial resistance to turning was resulting in minuscule shock loads to my skeletal system and was causing the carpal tunnel, neck pain, tingling in my arm, arm going numb on me, headaches, bent and twisted fingers and much, much more. These shock loads are responsible for so many physical problems I have, and I'm retired. Why am I developing these problems now? Where were they when I worked?

15.4 When you exit your vehicle after driving a distance, do you feel cramped/stiff? Welcome to the dangerously damaging "high effort steering" problems. Another quick way to determine if it is a high effort system, the texture is worn off the steering wheel and it is smooth and slippery.

15.5 Yes, I believe the aches and pains from children playing the games and adults driving the stiff steering systems are responsible for the tendency to eat more for the feeling of satisfaction. Let the young children win more often, slow the games down, take the mental frustration away.

15.6 But the best that you can do to protect your children is not to allow them to play the games, color, use a computer mouse when their fingers are so soft and susceptible to the dynamic forces which cause their fingers to become permanently bent and twisted. The best you can do as an adult for you is call the NHTSA and your vehicle manufacturer and ask that they fix the steering problem.

16. Help from Senator Joe Lieberman. Senator Lieberman has sponsored bills in the senate requesting money to fund a study to be conducted by our National Institute of Health. In his yearly submissions to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, he seeks 90 million for a 5-year-study on children and the media. The study on my information about children's finger deformities is included in his yearly requests. The submission to the senate for 2005 was Senate Bill S.579 known as the CAMRA Act (Children and Media Research Advancement). As with prior years, this bill never made it out of committee for a vote on the senate floor. Therefore it died. Senator Joe Lieberman must submit a new bill again this year and again it will die in committee as others have.

16.1 A letter was sent to President George Bush, his cabinet and all the Republican administrators that control the Consumer Products Safety Commission, the Center for Disease Control and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, providing them in-depth knowledge of the results of my 5-year study in the deformities of children's fingers and the health issues of the high effort steering on the physical limitations of the human skeletal system.

Children and adults are silently developing permanent functional loss in the use of their hands. Adults are developing serious physical problems from carpal tunnel to bulging/ruptured disks in the lumbar region. These deformities will hinder the future of the US in that the children will develop serious limitations in their ability to perform physical tasks and physical work. If you have any ideas how I can get these leaders to act on this...please let me know.

Senator Lieberman is trying to get a study conducted which includes the results of my studies. Senator Lieberman has to re-submit his bill to the Senate because

Senator Mike Enzi - Republician from Wyoming (888) 250-1879 (202) 224-3424 Chairman of the "Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions" has ignored this important bill. Obviously, the giants of the gaming industry (Nintendo, Sony, MS) do not want Lieberman's study conducted by the National Institue of Health and Child Development. I wonder why Mr. Enzi and the Republican controlled committee have turned their heads to this? I wonder what he has against our adults and children?

17. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. For the sake of your children's health, call one or all of these people. This Republican controlled Committee has continued to reject a study being conducted to verify the children's finger deformities. Call your state senator and complain about your child's deformed fingers from playing video games, because if your child played video games, used the computer mouse, and did coloring at the young age when their fingers were so soft...then sadly, they have deformities because the damage is microscopy accumulative.

17.1 NOTE: Senator Mike Enzi is the Committee Chairman and the person to call to make him aware of your children's finger deformities. Also contact your state senator. Mr. Enzi has killed every bill from Senator Joe Lieberman requesting funding for a study of the harmful effects caused to children from playing video games.

-Mike Enzi - Committee Chairman-R -WY 888-250-1879, (202) 224-3424

-Senator Edward Kennedy - Ranking Member D-MA 617-565-3170

-Senator Judd Gregg - NH R 202-224-3324

-Senator Bill Frist -TN R 202-224-3344, Nashville 615-352-9411

-Senator Lamar Alexander TN R 202-224-4944

-Senator Richard Burr NC R 800-685-8916

-Senator Johnny Isakson GA 770-661-0999

-Senator Mike DeWine OH R 216-522-7272

-Senator John Ensign NV R 775-885, 877-894-7711

-Senator Orrin Hatch UT R 801-625-5672

-Senator Jeff Sessions AL R 205-731-1500

-Senator Pat Roberts KS R, 620-227-2244

-Senator Chris Dodd CT R 800-334-5341, 860-258-6940

-Senator Tom Harkin IA 712-252-1550

-Senator Barbara Mikulski MD D 410-546-

-Senator James Jeffords VT I 802-223-5273, (800) 835-5500 (Only in Vermont) Bill Kurtz-Chief of Staff

-Senator Jeff Bingaman NM D 505-523-6561

-Senator Patty Murray WA D 360-696-7797

-Senator Jack Reed RI D 401-943-3100, Toll free from in Rhode Island: (800) 284-4200

-Senator Hillary Rodham NY D 315-376-6118

18. More Details about the NHTSA and My Communications

The issues about the dynamic forces being generated while driving vehicles with a "high effort steering" systems and the resulting negative health developments was communicated to the NHTSA in 2001. Since that time, I have made them aware of every development during the course of my investigation. Obviously, this was of serious importance due to the serious health consequences. It was difficult for even me to believe what I had discovered. I tried to discredit my finding, over-and-over again. I tired desperately because I didn't want to believe that this was possible, especially with the horribly sad deformities I saw in the children's fingers.

18.1 I spoke with many people at the NHTSA. Unfortunately, per newspaper articles (Corvallis Gazette-Times 8-18-04) defective automotive cover-ups appear to be common course for this agency.

18.2 My last letter from them in April 06 (responding to a copy of my book I had sent them with the supportive information on the health hazards of "high effort steering") it came from Mr. Ronald Medford. Therefore, if you have the health issues I have mentioned in this blog and if your fingers are bent and twisted like those shown in the "steering" album at http://photos.yahoo.com/miketomich then please call Mr. Ronald Medford or Kathleen DeMeter and let them know of your problems. It will take your call to pressure a study on this issue.

19. More Details with the CPSC and My Communications

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, D.C. 20207-0001 1-800-638-2772 The CPSC is the federal agency sworn to protect citizens from defective products (not including automobiles). The video games fall under their charter. However, since March 2002, I have been in continuous contact with them when ever a new supportive element of my discovery was made. Frustrating as it was, I called them many times and had some serious phone conversations with different members of this CPSC group explaining in "great detail" the effects of the dynamic forces and the material creep threshold tolerance levels, vibrations, etc. In one call, I was directed to Mr. Jason Goldsmith PhD (310) 504-7262. We spoke for almost two hours. I was very disappointed with his lack of understanding. Apparently, he isn't a physician or an engineer and I came to the conclusion he like Jeffrey Runge at the NHTSA, were an example of a true waste of taxpayer money.

19.1 My reason for calling them was to get them to add an age restriction to the video games to avoid children playing the games when their bones are too soft. When the children's bones are so soft, their fingers bend and twist. I can't see how any person in political authority and leadership who has vowed to protect the citizens, can turn their head to such massive damage that our children are incurring. Damages that are not reversible and hinder their hand functionality.

19.2 Therefore, if your children's fingers are bent and twisted like those shown in the Nintendo album at: http://photos.yahoo.com/miketomich then for the sake of your children, stop them from playing, and call the CPSC, your state senator, send this blog to your physician and take your child there. Per physicians that I have spoken with, the finger deformities are permanent but I would imagine there must be something that can be done to straighten them. An adjustable cast? The numbers to the video manufacturers is at the top of this blog. Call them and complain also.

Remember, the CPSC has known of this for 4-years now. They have failed to do anything. They told me in a phone conversation, which I have notes of, that 35 complaints from children having bent and twisted fingers wasn't enough. I would think that that statement was ludicrous.

19.3 Contact the CPSC at 1-800-638-2772. Report the video games as unsafe products because they have resulted in bending and twisting of your children's fingers. I am greatly disappointed because millions of more children have become injured since I made the CPSC and the video manufacturers aware of my findings in March 2002. The children and adult problems is a world-wide problem. The video and automotive industries are a part of the whole picture. The disappointing ting is despite my communications, they have allowed this to continue when all that was required of the video industry was to add age restrictions. The automotive industry, thats another story, they have numerous design problems contributing to the human physical tolerence level. But, I'll bet you the children of the video manufacturers and politicians do not play the games now.

19.4 Call the CPSC, they deserve a good ear full. And they owe the American people an explanation of why they failed to act, and why they allowed and continue to allow the children to develop serious physical functional limitations that will effect the quality of their life. May God have mercy on our children.

Chairman Hal Stratton (301) 504-7900 Email User

Commissioner Thomas Moore (310) 504-7902 Email User

Commissioner Nancy Nord (301) 504-7901 Email User

20. More Details with the Center for Disease Control and My Communications . Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D.,MPH - Director of the Center for Disease Control cancelled a scheduled study on the results of my studies in Oct. 2004. She can be reached at: CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30333 (404) 639-3311, (800) 311-3435. I would want to let her know that my children's fingers are deformed from the dynamic forces and I would want to know why she didn't do anything to look into this for the children. Pictures of children's deformed fingers are shown in the Nintendo album at http://photos.yahoo.com/miketomich

21. Serious Warnings/Issues about "Child Day Care Centers" and State Rules about Video Game Use by Small Children. Child Day Care Centers give children crayons to color with, and introduce them to video games. These two repetitive processes generate dynamic forces that do bend and twist the children's fingers because children have un-calcified bones that are very soft and yield very easily to forces generated by coloring and video gaming.

In response to my communications to the Michigan Director of Licensing of Children's Day Care Facilities, I received a letter from him (February 04) indicating the rule covering video playing by children was going to be changed from unlimited use to a maximum amount of use per day, per child. I requested removal of video games from the centers. Further, I requested young children not be allowed to perform coloring until their fingers were calcified strong enough to raise the dynamic force tolerance level to avoid their bone deformities.

The rules were not changed, so on October 12, 2005 I made a presentation to the State of Michigan in a public meeting regarding rule changes for Day Care Facilities, in Clinton Township, requesting video games be removed from the Day Care Facilities and coloring be limited to children with calcified bones.

Like many other states, Michigan does not have any language covering coloring or video games. The children are allowed to play as much as they wish. Day Care Facilities do love the children being occupied. Once introduced to the video games at Day Care, the children pressure their parents to purchase one for them.

When the rules are changed, I will post such on this blog so you will know what the changes are. Changes will have to be made by all states to stop additional deformity developments and prevent new children from joining the injured list.

22. Questions-Comments

If you have any questions about this information or wish to see something added, please send such to me at Email User or reply to this blog where indicated. I believe this blog contains enough information to understanding this problem, if not please contact me. I'm going to go back to work on completing my book.

23. My Book Explains It All. Book As a result of my 4 1/2 year study into the harmful effects of the dynamic forces, vibrations, shock loads causing children's and adults fingers deformities and physical problems and as well as the cause of arthritis I have been writing a book about this. I am within 4 weeks of completing it. I don't think I can offer it on this blog. If I can I will. It will be on a CD and contain the information that identifies the root causes for the problems mentioned in this blog. It was written as simply as possible. The proposed title will be "All the Giants" The Force Factor. It will presently be offered on CD to recover expenses of this 4 1/2 year study.

24. Conclusion

The human skeletal system does have a material creep threshold (MCT). This factor has not been recognized by humanity before. The MCT varies with calcification of the skeletal system and design capacity/strength of each bone in the skeletal system.

Children have a lower MCT because they have softer un-calcified bones. Therefore, the children must refrain from processes of coloring, video games, computers until it can be determined at what age their bones are hard enough (calcified enough) to withstand the forces created for each of the processes mentioned. Age restrictions must be inserted and followed for crayon, computer mouse, and video use. The other processes in their daily young toddler years must be reviewed as well to determine any negative effects to their bones.

Adults. The biggest common denominator for adults is the "high effort steering" systems, and the driveline vibrations, road noise, seating designs, etc (as covered in my book). The biggest contribution that can be made to eliminate the adults from developing bent and twisted fingers is to reduce the steering effort to the old one baby finger effort of the 60's. In the 60's a steering wheel could be turned with the small finger by itself. Designs can be changed to accommodate the gripping of hand tools, etc. by adults without causing injury as they do today.

Call your senator. This has to be a grass roots effort. Just remember, if your want your child protected, your going to have to do it. The politicians will not touch something of this magnitude on their own without the driving forces of the people. May God have mercy on all our injured children with deformed fingers and adults with the same, and their serious physical health issues.. May this result in a new attitude for business and responsibility on the politicians to act accordingly for the benefit of our citizens they are sworn to protect.

25. Disclaimer

The information offered in these writings is not intended to be a substitute for the advice or counsel of your physician. This information represents the author's contentions and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of physicians and scientist.

I am more interested in getting this message to the public than checking for grammer or typing errors, so forgives me for these errors.

26. GLOSSARY

A. Dynamic Force, Dynamic Load - A force producing change, characterized by or producing change or progression. The force or load applied which results in matter exceeding its material creep threshold, thus resulting in a change, effect. Force - Physical power or strength exerted to drive or propel against resistance. The effort (force) required to overcome the steering wheels resistance to turn. Vehicles of old would turn with one finger thus, they required much less force than the vehicles like the Chevrolet Impala. High Effort Steering (HES) System (HESS) - Most of today's vehicles require more effort from the driver to turn the steering wheel. The driver cannot use one finger to turn the wheel, has to use one or both hands to overcome the steering wheels resistance to turn. Examples are the Chevrolet Impala, Ford Mustang, Chrysler Durango, GM Saturn, and other domestic and foreign vehicles. These steering systems result in shock loading the skeletal system and tissues of the body. They accumulatively result in bone and joint deformities, degenerative back disease, carpal tunnel, headaches, lower back degeneration, and many more medical problems (which will be identified in this book).

B. Inflammation - The body responds as if normal tissues are somehow abnormal by releasing chemicals from the body's white blood cells into the affected area(s) of injury. The release of chemicals increases the blood flow to the area of injury to protect it and may result in redness or warmth. Some of the chemicals cause a leak of fluid into the tissues, resulting in swelling. This protective process may stimulate nerves and cause pain. Inflammation is characterized by; redness, swollen joint that is warm to the touch, joint pain, joint stiffness, lost of joint function. Increased number of cells and inflammatory substances within the joint can cause irritation, wearing down of the cartilage (cushions at the ends of the bones) and swelling of the joint lining.

C. Low Effort Steering (LES) System (LESS) - Most steering systems of the 80's that allowed the use of one finger for turning the steering wheel. Low effort, easy to turn. You could turn the wheel with your small finger even when sitting still. These low effort systems do not exceed the human physical capabilities to drive a vehicle and do not inflict damage to the skeletal system or body tissues.

D. Material Creep Threshold (MCT) Tolerance Level (MCTTL) - The point at which a stimulus is of sufficient intensity to begin to produce an effect. The ability of something to return to its original shape. Such as when a weight is placed on a steel bar, the bar will bend downward, and when the weight is removed and it returns to it original form; the weight did not exceed the material creep threshold of the bar. When a weight is added and the bar bends but fails to rebound to its original shape when the weight is removed, then the applied weight did result in the bar exceeding the material creep threshold. Material creep thresholds vary with material compositions and external factors. The molecular bonding of the cells begins to elongate. Young children with soft bones have extremely low material creep thresholds.

E. Peen / Peening - The material break down between two contacting surfaces. Shock - A sudden physically powerful blow or impact Strain - To make excessive demands, exert to the utmost, deformation of a solid body or structure in response to application of a force, severe or fatiguing pressure, injury to a muscle or tendon. Such as the force generated to overcome, the high resistance of a steering wheel to turn generates stress (an unnatural load) to the body. When that force and stress exceed the physical capabilities of the body, a strain develops due to a permanent or temporary deformation.

F. Stress - The physical pressure, pull, or other force exerted on one thing by another; strain. The stress incurred by the skeletal system and body tissues during the delivery of the forces necessary to overcome the steering wheel resistance to turn. Such as the continued stress incurred when delivering the force to turn the high effort steering system and holding that force to continue making a right or left hand turn with that vehicle. When the steering wheel returns to its neutral/centered position, the deliverance of force by the driver is no longer needed and as a result, the stresses to the muscles is then eliminated because neither stress or force is required when the steering wheel is in the neutral/centered position.

G. Vibration - Pulsating Vibration - The reciprocating, oscillating, or motion of a rigid or elastic body or medium forced from a position or state of equilibrium (Physics-Random House). Example: when a driver of a high effort steering system feels the vibration in the steering wheel from the drive train, tires slapping the road, hitting chuckholes, off balance tires and feels the same in the new firm molded seating, etc. When a child plays a video game and the hand held game controller starts to vibrate vigorously.

Comment On This

I have a better idea. Stop driving. Your children, god help them, should probably stop colouring and being creative. As a matter of fact, you better stay in bed and have your maid bring your food.

you have a bit too much time on your hands. Get a job and help out instead of being a drain on society...