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Smartphone head lump more substantial in young adult age group
- crims0n 7y agoAuthor corrections: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49153-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49153-6 ...and Time article disputing the findings: https://time.com/5611036/teenagers-skull-horns/ https://time.com/5611036/teenagers-skull-horns/
- striking 7y agoSnopes has a good summary here too https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cell-phones-horns-skulls/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cell-phones-horns-skulls/
- jacknews 7y agosorry, I really need a translation for this. I feel dumb just reading the abstract, or even the title.
- dpark 7y agoBone spurs (extoses) are now commonly found in the back of the skull. Their existence is highly correlated with forward head posture. Forward head posture has some correlation with high levels of smartphone use. Hence the extremely editorialized “smartphone head lump“. There are a lot of concerns with the paper and it’s findings, including whether the authors actually found bone spurs at all or if they were looking at the normal anatomy and simply interpreting it wrongly.
- tannhaeuser 7y agoOP here. Sorry about the editorialization but the original title would be extremely puzzling to the HN crowd without a medical background, and it didn't fit the space constraints for titles in the first place. Moderators, feel free to change the title to something more acceptable (I didn't manage to find a readable headline by leaving out words).