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They should be pushing for a study on neck injury / muscle strain on smart phone use. Millennials and the next gen after are going to pay dearly from injuries f
by hilyen 9y ago
They should be pushing for a study on neck injury / muscle strain on smart phone use. Millennials and the next gen after are going to pay dearly from injuries from bending their necks/heads down for years and years looking at their phones.
- iamthirsty 9y agoI've recently made an active effort to combat this — now I mind my posture almost obsessively.
- LastZactionHero 9y agoWhat have you done, or what change have you made to keep posture in mind?
- carlmr 9y agoAlso interested as someone with a bad neck.
- Tempest1981 9y agoIn a nutshell, keep your spine straight, as if a string were attached to your head, pulling you up. Also do exercises that strengthen your back muscles, and core -- to make it easier to avoid slouching. A good physical therapist can really help -- see if your health plan covers it.
- iamthirsty 9y agoStarted doing back-strengthening workouts, and try to stand a lot more during the day at work. Also don't let myself use my phone while walking, as that was a big issue for a while.
- derwiki 9y agoPracticing alignment-based hatha yoga has helped me be more mindful of my posture in my daily life.
- gpmcadam 9y agoDo you have a source for smartphone usage having any impact on neck or muscle strain, versus non-smartphone usage, and why it would disproportionately affect millennials?
- pmarreck 9y agoWhy is this guy getting downvoted simply for asking for evidence? This is Hacker News. Raise the bar, people. Leave the baseless assertions and hearsay to Reddit. I expect citations in discussions here. In fact I just scrolled through this entire discussion and did not find A SINGLE LINK to outside evidence/data. How do you expect to debate anything with any validity, based on nothing but bullshit?
- le-mark 9y agoI didn't down vote, but I took the gp to be an expression of opinion rather than a statement of fact, and neck pain from phone use being something I can relate to. Merely asking for sources can be distracting when discussing opinions. I think a more cogent response would be "How is smart phone use different than reading a paper or having ones nose buried in a book?" which of course isn't new, but the same physical movement.
- pmarreck 9y agoWell at least you're making a rational argument!
- le-mark 9y agoIndeed, intelligent people can debate in good faith[1], without battering one another with sources. Since a source (or out of context snippet) can be found to support nearly any assertion, sources are not the end all. Often times, source ladden arguments devolve to a debate of source validity and authoritativeness. Which to me, is boring. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
- wvenable 9y agoHow is it different from the generations before that read books?