Text Neck Syndrome

You could be destroying your neck one text, or video/post/reel/etc at a time!

If you are looking down at your phone like the photo above, you are placing undue strain on your neck joints!!! If you are holding your phone as shown in the photo below, it will place strain on your bicep tendon but that tissue is designed to handle the workload (unless you are currently experiencing tendonitis in your bicep and then it will hurt to do this-and it’s time for some Physical Therapy). Even better for your neck and bicep is to place your forearm on a padded, supportive surface or use a phone holder of some sort when you will be looking at your phone for extended periods of time!

Our craniums weigh about 10-12 pounds when in a neutral posture position. But with every 15 degrees of forward bend at your neck the weight placed upon your neck joints goes up and up: 27 pounds at 15 degrees, 40 pounds at 30 degrees, 49 at 45 degrees and a whopping 60 pounds at 60 degrees which is about all that most necks can bend. How often do we see teenagers at the bus stop with fully bent necks looking at their phone? Their poor necks! Especially since they often assume this position while also slouching in their mid-back worsening the strain on their necks.

So, be KIND to your SPINE and keep a giant bouquet of helium filled balloons attached to the top of your head instead of a sack of stones! Good posture is key for neck health! No one likes a pain in the neck!