When using cellphones, laptops, or are simply sitting at a computer we often end up with some pretty crazy postures.
Most commonly you’ll see:
- Heads bent over phone for long periods of time.
- Slumped body posture on computer.
- Using hands to support our heads when were tired.
So what we end up with eventually are:
- Headaches
- Neck pain
- Shoulder and arm pain
- Numbness and tingling into the hands and arms
- Low back pain
Symptoms come from the neck being forward bent for long times:
- It increases the internal neck pressure by 3 times normal!!
- Compresses the muscles and joints at the base of the skull.
- Can compress the nerves and blood vessels to the arms.
- Overstretches the nerve and connective tissues.
On this month’s WCSH Morning Show segment Back in Motion’s Mary Kroth-Brunet gives helpful tips on how to keep good posture while using these pieces of technology.