Text Neck and How it Affects your Spine

Tex neck and how it affects your spine
text neck refers to spending a lot of
time on your phone on your tablet on
your computer with your head either in
flexion or forward head posture position
forward your head weighs around 10 lbs
on average and every inch you move
forward exponentially what happens is
those muscles those nerves those blood
vessels are spending a lot more time
doing extra work to Hold Your Head
upright it can cause pain it can cause a
lack of range of motion you can develop
tension and knots in the upper back and
shoulder blades long term it can affect
the bones the bones can remodel due to
the stress on them causing early onset
arthritis what we’re looking at here is
the neck from the side the head sits
right up here when your head’s in when
your neck’s in the right position it’s
positioned over your shoulder over your
center of gravity here in your neck as
you inch forward into that flexion or
forward head position it puts so much
abnormal strain on the spine that it can
have these detrimental effects