How many people are on their smartphones? Now look closely and you are most certainly going to find them craning their necks to look at their gadgets.
Imagine carrying an 8-year-old around on your neck for several hours a day; roughly 60 pounds of pressure on your spine. Just think about what that would do to your back. No one would do that though, right? Wrong. If you have a smartphone, so you are constantly hunched over it for two to four hours per day, so you might just be doing that.
The average human head weighs in somewhere between 10 and 12 pounds. This is all well and good if you are sitting up straight with your head neatly stacked above the spine, however it’s a different story as soon as you lean your head forward.
Every inch you move your head downwards adds an additional 10lbs of force onto your neck and spine.
Due to the rise in mobile use and the widespread integration of technology into our daily lives, the forward head posture or ‘dowager humps‘ that were previously only seen in grandmothers and great-grandmothers, have become apparent in the teenagers of today.
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