Text Neck
Text Neck is a relatively recent condition, and is the name used for the poor posture seen when using technology, such as hand-held devices. This poor posture has become a common cause of neck pain and headaches.
What is Text Neck?
Text Neck is an overuse syndrome or a repetitive stress injury to the neck caused by holding your head forward and downward for extended periods. When keeping your head in this position, excessive amounts of tension are created in the deep muscles of your neck and across the shoulders, causing both acute and chronic neck pain.
Text Neck
Signs and Symptoms of Text Neck
Text neck may have one or more of these signs and symptoms:
Causes of Text Neck
When in an upright posture, your ears should align with the centre of your shoulders. In this position, the weight of the average head exerts approximately 4.5 to 5.5 kgs of force through your neck muscles. However, when your head is moved forward by only 2 to 3 cms away from this neutral position, your head weight dramatically increases these neck forces. This can lead an increase of up to 6 times the amount of force put onto the neck i.e. up to 30kg of force going through the neck muscles. This, obviously, puts a lot of strain onto the nerves and muscles of the neck, and causes pain.
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