With seven out of ten children having access to a tablet computer and spending an average of 10.5 hours online per week, osteopath, Kevin Partridge at the Trinity Practice, Shaftesbury, is seeing an increase in text neck.
Kevin said ‘A human head weighs 10lbs, but the problems start when we drop our head forward, more than doubling it’s pressure on your neck and causing the 23 neck muscles to contract, eventually causing spasm, pain and injury”
Two simple habits can help. Firstly raising ‘phone to face’ rather than dropping ‘face to phone’ will significantly reduce neck pressure. Secondly follow the 20:20:20 rule, every 20 minutes look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds.
Osteopaths are trained to diagnose and treat neck conditions.