Stop overusing your mobile or fall prey to neck hernia
Posted on: 17/Apr/2017 4:36:52 PM
A new study finds that there is more number of patients suffering out of neck or disc hernias, alignment problems, etc. and the reason is to be attributed to the whopping smartphone and other gadgets usage. Parents, please ask your kids to stay away from them.
Researchers say that patients who have so far not reported about back or neck issues have reports like disc hernias or alignment troubles.
The findings of the study are issued on The Spine Journal. It states that when the neck is placed in a neutral position looking forward, its weight will be around 4.5 to 5.4 kg at 15-degree flex. This hence feels as though it is of 12 kg. When stress on spine increases at 60 degrees, it will weigh 27 kg.
In X-ray, the neck slides backward. However, due to overuse of gadgets, the curve gets reversed due to long hours of looking down at the gadgets, said co-author of the study Dr. Todd Lanman, a spinal neurosurgeon, Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, Los Angeles.
