'Text neck': Are smartphones causing more harm to our bodies than we think?

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'Text neck': Are smartphones causing more harm to our bodies than we think?  Text neck describes the forward-tilted posture people adopt while using phones or tablets, which can place extra strain on the neck. But is this a real medical condition - or just a modern health scare?  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/09/03/text-neck-are-smartphones-causing-more-harm-to-our-bodies-than-we-think  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00I do not see it as a real medical condition.

00:22I see TexNec as another manifestation of some skepticism towards new technology.

00:30And it's actually, I think, interesting from a historical perspective,

00:34because we often see these new disease definitions when new technology emerges.

00:41For example, when the first trains started, the first railways were made,

00:49it was considered very unhealthy for the back to travel at such high speeds.

00:56When everyone started to have computers in the 90s, we had a mouse,

01:00and all of a sudden we had an epidemic of neck and spine problems and arm problems from using the mouse.

01:07And today we hardly speak about it anymore. It's just gone away.

01:11So neck pain is a very common symptom in the population.

01:18And we know it's more common in office workers and in students

01:24and in people who are kind of forced in their everyday to be in a particularly fixed position.

01:30I would advise people who are very sedentary to be active in their spare time, physically active.

01:47We can see in large studies in populations that people who have a sedentary job

01:52and who are physically active when they are not at work have less pain and less risk of developing chronic pain

01:59than people who are also sedentary when they are off work.

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