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Four Exercises to Relieve Text Neck (Chiropractor-Approved)
What causes text neck?
There’s a very high chance that you’re reading this piece from a mobile device, thus engaging in the text neck position. Text neck means a head forward, rounded shoulders, and back slumped posture. Unfortunately, text neck is a massive epidemic.
People spend at least five hours daily staring at their phones. Unfortunately, this continuous staring can lead to severe aches and pains in the neck. Medical researchers at Harvard Medical Health say that approximately 7 out of 10 people will have neck aches at some point in their lives.
So, what does a text neck do to your body? Simple! It compresses the tendon, muscle, and ligament structures in front of your neck and tightens the ligament, tendon, and muscle structures behind your neck. In addition, your head weighs approximately 10 pounds. So, for every inch your head tilts forward, your neck carries double the weight. That extra strain adds up over time.
But it is unthinkable to ditch our mobile devices. I dare say that it is nearly impossible. So, what we can do instead is to engage in the correct exercises to prevent the aches and pains that cause text neck.
