Cell phone addicts suffer from ‘text neck’

Mobile phone users are increasingly suffering from a new condition,dubbed”text neck” ,due to the amount of time they spend hunched over their gadgets, experts have said.

According to them, the affliction, caused by flexing the neck for extended periods of time, can be a fore runner of arthritic damage if it goes without treatment. Numbers of sufferers are increasing as the use of notebooks, tablets and smart phones is increasing.

The condition occur because the joints and tissue in the neck are not built to withstand being flexed for long periods, and spending hours peering down at a screen puts them under too much stress.

Keeping the neck, and head stretched forward for long periods could eventually cause the natural curvature of the neck to reverse, potentially leading to serious health problems.

Children’s are more at risk because their head lager than their body size as compared to adults.