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If you are holding a mobile phone in a hand your palm and fingers (thumb) are more or less in the same position. Take a look at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5546699/, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7440311/, https://www.toi-health.com/physician-articles/effects-smartp... and https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000368701... just to name some articles.


None of the studies you linked concluded any significant findings. The most significant, which was unremarkable, was from the first:

"There is limited evidence that MTSD use, and various aspects of its use (i.e. amount of usage, features, tasks and positions), are associated with musculoskeletal symptoms and exposures. This is due to mainly low quality experimental and case-control laboratory studies, with few cross-sectional and no longitudinal studies."




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