Text Neck
Do you have shooting pains down your neck and arm, as well as numbness or tingling in your fingers and hand? You could have the fashionable new injury among cell phone users: text neck. Back pain clinics and chiropractors in North America and Europe are reporting seeing thousands of text neck cases. One chiropractor, Dean L. Fishman, has seen so many injuries directly caused by over-texting that he now specializes in their treatment, registering the term and opening the Text Neck Institute. He also trains other chiropractors in how to fix it. Fishman calls text neck a “global epidemic” and claims his youngest patient is three years old. According to the Institute’s website, http://text-neck.com, “Looking down at the screen on their hand held mobile device for long periods of time… will cause changes in the curve, supporting ligaments, tendons, and musculature, as well as the bony segments. Eventually there may be nerve involvement, muscle spasms and pain.”
Do you have shooting pains down your neck and arm, as well as numbness or tingling in your fingers and hand? You could have the fashionable new injury among cell phone users: text neck. Back pain clinics and chiropractors in North America and Europe are reporting seeing thousands of text neck cases. One chiropractor, Dean L. Fishman, has seen so many injuries directly caused by over-texting that he now specializes in their treatment, registering the term and opening the Text Neck Institute. He also trains other chiropractors in how to fix it. Fishman calls text neck a “global epidemic” and claims his youngest patient is three years old. According to the Institute’s website, http://text-neck.com, “Looking down at the screen on their hand held mobile device for long periods of time… will cause changes in the curve, supporting ligaments, tendons, and musculature, as well as the bony segments. Eventually there may be nerve involvement, muscle spasms and pain.”
