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Using your smartphone can cause “texting neck syndrome”. Here are its consequences on our body.
- In France, people spend an average of three hours and thirty minutes a day on their phone.
- A sore thumb caused by excessive smartphone use is called “textonitis”.
When we check our phone, we lean our head forward for several minutes or even hours. This poor posture can lead to the onset of text neck syndrome, also called “text neck” or “text neck pain”.
Its negative effects
Keeping your head down for too long on a daily basis “generates a hyper solicitation of the head, a locking of the neck and a hyper extension of the spine. (…) The greater the inclination of the head (which already weighs almost 5 kg alone), the greater the tension supported by the neck is important”, noted the Research Institute for the Well-being of Medicine and Sports Health (IRBMS).
Texting neck syndrome can cause pain, muscle stiffness, headaches, torticollis and spinal static disorder. According to the IRBMS, time spent with the chest closed and leaning forward can also cause breathing difficulties or at least impair breathing capacity.
How to prevent it?
To avoid suffering from neck-texting syndrome, it is advisable to reduce screen time and reduce the number of messages and their length as much as possible. Other advice: do stretches every 30 minutes and make rotational movements of the neck to relax your muscles. It is also recommended to move the shoulders regularly and to change posture frequently.
