Look down a few inches in front of your fingers and lengthen from your head down to your tailbone. Start on all fours with your shoulders stacked over your wrists, your hips stacked over your knees, and the tops of your feet pressed into the ground.Instead, what we can do is make sure we exercise right and practice good habits to prevent the aches and pains associated with text neck. Overtime, that extra strain adds up.īut ditching our devices isn’t really an option. For every inch your head is tilted forward, the weight your neck has to carry doubles,” explains Cappo. Here’s what text neck does to your body: It compresses and tightens the muscle, tendon, and ligament structures in front of the neck while lengthening the muscles, tendon, and ligament structures behind the neck. Researchers at Harvard Medical Health predict that 7 out of 10 people will experience neck aches at some point in their lives. People spend approximately five hours every day looking at their phones - and that can lead to some serious text-neck aches and pains, explains chiropractor Ciara Cappo, DC, of Cappo Chiropractic & Sports Therapy. What are the chances you’re reading this article from your handheld device, engaging in the serious but harmful position text neck? (Definition: head forward, shoulders rounded, and back slumped.) This position, also known as “text neck,” is a real epidemic.
