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‘Text neck’ is becoming an ‘epidemic’ and could wreck your spine
The human head weighs about a dozen pounds. But as the neck bends forward and down, the weight on the cervical spine begins to increase. At a 15-degree angle, this weight is about 27 pounds, at 30 degrees it’s 40 pounds, at 45 degrees it’s 49 pounds, and at 60 degrees it’s 60 pounds. That’s the burden that comes with staring at a smartphone — the way millions do for hours every day, according to research published by Kenneth Hansraj in the National Library of Medicine.
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How is this any different from reading a book?
Good point. Writing, doing jigsaw puzzles, etc. realistically anything where people look down at something will cause this no?
Yet another reason for this old man to hate texting.