How Your Cell Phone is Putting You At Risk for the Newest Tech Health Epidemic

text neck, neck pain

The conveniences of technology in the modern era are causing unprecedented health problems for thousands of consumers around the world. Text neck, or neck pain caused by looking down at a cell phone screen for too long, is affecting people in unprecedented numbers. Chronic suffering from this condition even has a name: text neck syndrome.

New research is revealing that cell phones are a big cause of negative health effects in the neck and body. Looking down at your cell phone can give you text neck, a medical condition you get from not supporting the weight of your head in a proper way.

Most of us spend hours looking down at electronic devices every day, but few are aware how much pain text neck can cause or how many ways text neck can reduce our quality of life. Yet research has shown that looking down at cell phone screen for hours each day can cause breathing problems, migraines, pain in the jaws, and severe neck pain. Traditional neck pain relief techniques seem to alleviate the problem.

The benefits of modern technology are certainly coming at a high price for people that are dependent on it. Cell phones allow people ton. Personal assistants and secretaries have been replaced by multi-functional Apps, and one small device can hold more music than the largest cd rack can hold. Yet the high price of adverse health effects from text neck may not be worth the efficiency.

Looking down at a screen puts tremendous pressure on your cervical spine, creating text neck syndrome. The neck serves two functions: supporting the head and protecting the spinal cord. To provide optimal support to your ten-pound head, the neck must be fully upright.

A study by Hansraj in 2015 studied the impacts of text neck on patience by looking at the pressure being put on the spine at different head tilt angles. What he found was that just a 15-degree tilt of the neck raised the weight of the head to 60 degrees and your head puts a full 60 pounds of pressure on your neck.

This is a massive amount of pressure to put on such an essential body part, but sadly many people are doing so for hours each day. Hansraj’s research discovered that average people are on their phones for over three hours every day.

An older study from 1993 by Watson and Trott revealed that patients that suffered from frequent headaches often spent more time than average with their head in a forward tilted position. A forward-tilted head was also linked toms of text neck were being felt by the population.

Increased sympto daily life, that number should only go up.

The best way to patients suffering from text neck.

Do your neck a favor and give it a break. Spend less time on your cell phone and be mindful of your posture while you use it. Neck pain relief may be just as simple as raising your phone to it.

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In this instance, an athlete was originally diagnosed with minor quadriceps muscle strain and was treated for four weeks, with unsatisfactory results. When he came to our clinic, the muscle was not healing, and the patients’ muscle tissue had already begun to atrophy.

Upon examination using MSUS, we discovered that he had a full muscle thickness tear that had been overlooked by his previous provider. To mitigate damage and promote healing, surgery should have been performed immediately after the injury occurred. Because of misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment, the patient now has permanent damage that cannot be corrected.

The most important advantage of Ultrasound over MRI imaging is its ability to zero in on the symptomatic region and obtain imaging, with active participation and feedback from the patient. Using dynamic MSUS, we can see what happens when patients contract their muscles, something that cannot be done with MRI. From a diagnostic perspective, this interaction is invaluable.

Dynamic ultrasonography examination demonstrating
the full thickness tear and already occurring muscle atrophy
due to misdiagnosis and not referring the patient
to proper diagnostic workup

Demonstration of how very small muscle defect is made and revealed
to be a complete tear with muscle contraction
under diagnostic sonography (not possible with MRI)

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Complete tear of rectus femoris
with large hematoma (blood)

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Separation of muscle ends due to tear elicited
on dynamic sonography examination

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