Text Neck Treatment with Your Birmingham Chiropractor

Man texting while walking

How often do you look at your phone? If you are a person who spends a lot of time texting, checking social media, or doing other things on your phone, you might have text neck. This condition is one that chiropractors are seeing more often, but many people don’t realize the detrimental impacts of the position that your neck has to be in for prolonged texting sessions.

Text Neck is Cumulative

The issue with texting and using a smartphone is that you have to bend your neck down. This puts a lot of pressure on the spine in the area. If you have your neck bent at a 60-degree angle, you have about 60 pounds of weight on your neck. At 15-degrees, the weight of your head is only around 27 pounds. In reality, your head only weighs about 12 pounds. If you look at those numbers, you can see that the more bent your neck is, the more pressure is on your neck.

As the pressure on the neck continues for a prolonged period, the damage to the neck will increase. Over time, the damage can cause pain and problems. This is true for younger people and adults. Herniated disks, muscle strained, inflammation, and pinched nerves are all possible.

Correcting the Problem

The first step in finding relief is to stop bending down to text. Instead, limit the time you are looking down at your phone. You might also find that chiropractic treatments provide some relief for you. These can help to correct the alignment in the neck and restore the natural curve of the spine. The relief that you need isn’t going to come all at once with chiropractic treatments. These treatments are cumulative, not instant.

Contact Your Birmingham Chiropractor Today

Contact Back On Track Chiropractic & Wellness to make an appointment with our chiropractor in Birmingham. They can help you find ways to address text neck.

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