Thread by @thehdmovement

~Fix Your Text Neck~

//A Thread//

Painful, doesn't look great, and it's horrible for your spine.

Get to it before it gets to you.

With our phones becoming more and more ingrained in our day to day lives.

"Text Neck" has become a more common issue.

So much so that we even have a name for it.

Once this is more advanced, it becomes more difficult to reverse.

Luckily with just a few tweaks to your posture and implementing a couple of exercises, you can avoid this altogether.

Generally what happens is we are maintaining the muscles in the back of the neck in a lengthened position.

And the ones in the front of the neck in a shortened position.

Our head is also pretty heavy.

And when we are looking down the effects of gravity make it even heavier.

While all this force is putting pressure on the structures in the cervical spine (neck).

Which will eventually lead to problems down the line.

What we want to do is implement a few stretches in the front of the neck.

While strengthening all the stabilizing muscles all around the neck that maintain your head in a neutral position.

We also want to avoid looking down at our phones as much as possible.

And bring our phones to eye level instead.

This is a win-win situation because when your arm gets tired from holding it up.

It probably means you should probably get off of it anyway.

A lot of these exercises would be hard to describe in writing and this thread would get to be too long.

So I've included a really good video that's only 7 minutes long that describes everything nicely.

As a Physical Therapist, I see this in the clinic ALL THE TIME.

And I notice is even more so in public.

Watch the video.

Apply it to your life.

It will only take 20 minutes 2x per week.

And retweet the first post to save your follower's necks.

Thank you for reading!

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