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== | == What is Text Neck? == | ||
Text neck is a Modern age term coined to describe repeated stress injury and pain in the neck resulting from excessive watching or texting on hand held devices over a sustained period of time.<ref name=":0">Neupane S, Ifthikar Ali UT, Mathew A. Text-Neck Syndrome- Systemic review.Imperial journal of Interdisciplinary Research 2017;3(7):141-148</ref> It is also often known as Turtle Neck posture. It is a cause for increasing concern especially with children given their greater propensity to mobile phone usage.<ref>Vate-U-Lan P. Text Neck Epidemic: A growing problem for smart phone users in Thailand. Proceedings of the twelfth internaitonal conference ofn eLearining for Knowledge based society; 2015 December 11-12; Thailand</ref> Recent figures have shown that around 87% of teenagers (14-18 years) in USA and 79% teenagers (12-15 years) in UK own and use smartphones. Among adults 92% and 95% (18-34 years) reported owing a smartphone in USA and Australia respectively.<ref>Toh SH, Coenen P, Howie EK, Straker LM. The associations of mobile touch screen device use with Musculoskeletal symptoms and exposures: A systematic review. PLoS One 2017; 12(8) </ref> | |||
== | The term 'Text Neck' was coined by Dr. DL Fishman, a US chiropractor.This condition is a growing lifestyle and health condition with the constant growth in mobile user population all over the world. Apart from neck pain, it acn also cause shoulder pain, upper back pain, headaches and increased thoracic kyphosis.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
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What is Text Neck?[edit | edit source]
Text neck is a Modern age term coined to describe repeated stress injury and pain in the neck resulting from excessive watching or texting on hand held devices over a sustained period of time.[1] It is also often known as Turtle Neck posture. It is a cause for increasing concern especially with children given their greater propensity to mobile phone usage.[2] Recent figures have shown that around 87% of teenagers (14-18 years) in USA and 79% teenagers (12-15 years) in UK own and use smartphones. Among adults 92% and 95% (18-34 years) reported owing a smartphone in USA and Australia respectively.[3]
The term 'Text Neck' was coined by Dr. DL Fishman, a US chiropractor.This condition is a growing lifestyle and health condition with the constant growth in mobile user population all over the world. Apart from neck pain, it acn also cause shoulder pain, upper back pain, headaches and increased thoracic kyphosis.[1]
Symptoms of Text Neck[edit | edit source]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Neupane S, Ifthikar Ali UT, Mathew A. Text-Neck Syndrome- Systemic review.Imperial journal of Interdisciplinary Research 2017;3(7):141-148
- ↑ Vate-U-Lan P. Text Neck Epidemic: A growing problem for smart phone users in Thailand. Proceedings of the twelfth internaitonal conference ofn eLearining for Knowledge based society; 2015 December 11-12; Thailand
- ↑ Toh SH, Coenen P, Howie EK, Straker LM. The associations of mobile touch screen device use with Musculoskeletal symptoms and exposures: A systematic review. PLoS One 2017; 12(8)
