शालीनता का ध्यान रखें- कभी भी शराब पीकर किसी को मैसेज न भेजें। ग़लत सेक्स्टिंग के बाद पछताने से भी कुछ हासिल नहीं होगा। बेहतर है कि आप सावधानी बरतें और अगर शराब पी है तो अपने फोन को हाथ न लगाएं। इसी तरह नशे में हो सकता है कि आप किसी आपत्तिजनक हालत वाली तस्वीर अपने फैमिली ग्रुप में भेज दें।
Now-a-days, mobile phones and other devices have become everyone's new best friend. The habit of constantly being on the phone has immense repercussions. Repetitive Stress Injury from looking down at your mobile device for long periods of time is known as 'Text Neck Syndrome'; a term coined by DrDL Fishman is an apt description of the disease, as well as its cause. It is a growing cause of concern as we are now using muchsmaller and compact devices. Common symptoms are - stiffness of the neck, neck pain, headache and pain radiating to upper limbs.
Earlier, this kind of pain was restricted to people who wereavid readers, or those who had long working hours on computers. However, there is now an increase in the disease as our computers have been replaced by smaller devices such as phones, tablets and laptops. There is also an increase in use of smartphones by the younger population, especially the teens. Expecting a reply within 15mins, teenagers are constantly addicted to their phones and have an average use time of 135minseach day.
How does the use of smaller devices increase this neck pain?
This is because flexing the head forward to use a smartphone affects the Spine directly. Tilting the head forward to 15 degrees places about 27 pounds of force on the neck. This increases to 40 pounds at 30 degrees, 49 pounds at 45 degrees and 60 pounds at 60 degrees. Damage caused by untreated Text Neck can be similar to Occupational Overuse Syndrome or Repetitive Stress/ Strain Injury.
Symptoms mainly consist of:
Treatment:
The treatment mainly consists of prevention.
In a few cases, with chronic pain, the disease may have progressed to Disc Degeneration or Arthritis where the treatments may vary from medication, Physiotherapy to surgery. So it is better to prevent this simple and common problem rather than go for long, expensive and painful line of treatment.
Inputs by Dr Pramod Bhor, Orthopaedist& Joint Replacement Surgeon, Hiranandani Hospital Vashi- A Fortis Network Hospital
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