The daily use of smartphones negatively affects the spine of users, and the head of the surgery department of a hospital in New York explains exactly what type of dangers we expose ourselves to while using such a mobile terminal. According to the doctor, tilting the head while using a smartphone increases the pressure applied to the vertebral column, and as the angle of inclination of the head increases, the pressure applied to the spine of our bodies also increases, so that when writing messages on mobile terminals we could apply up to 27 KG of weight on the spine.
As the head tilts forward the forces seen by the neck surge to 27 pounds at 15 degrees, 40 pounds at 30 degrees, 49 pounds at 45 degrees and 60 pounds at 60 degrees. Cumulatively this is 700 to 1400 hours a year of excess stresses seen about the cervical spine. While it is nearly impossible to avoid the technologies that cause these issues, individuals should make an effort to look at their phones with a neutral spine and to avoid spending hours each day hunched over.
Incorrect use of a smartphone puts pressure on the spine
According to the calculations made by the doctor, annually we accumulate up to 1400 hours of additional weight applied to the spine, and this generates over time an improper curvature of it, affecting the body's evolution and mobility in old age. If at school you were told countless times to sit as straight as possible during class, now doctors tell us to raise the mobile terminals as high as possible in relation to the head in order not to bend our spine during use, so it would be good to listen to them, otherwise we risk being hunched over in old age.
