1. Youth Ergonomics and Physical Development
Eero Turunen
Physical Therapist, OMPT
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2. Youth Ergonomics Text neck
Children and adolescents spent averages of 5 and 7 hours a day with their heads tilted over reading and texting on their smartphones and handheld devices.
1825 and 2555 hours a year of excess stresses seen in the cervical spine area. ET

3. Surg Neurol Int. 2017; 8: 72.

4. What are the symptoms associated with text neck?
Text neck most commonly causes neck pain and soreness. In addition, looking down at your cell phone too much each day can lead to:
Upper back pain and upper back muscle spasms.
Shoulder pain and tightness, painful shoulder muscle spasm.
If a cervical nerve becomes pinched, pain and possibly neurological symptoms can radiate down your arm and into your hand ET

5. How is text neck treated? Prevention is key.
Hold your cell phone at eye level as much as possible.
Take frequent breaks.

6. Exercise is important.
Strong core muscles—the abdominal and lower back muscles—to support your upper body, including your neck. Your core muscles usually do not get enough exercise during normal daily activities, so you need to do specific exercises to target these muscles.
Strong and flexible muscles of the neck, shoulders and upper back to minimize strain on your cervical spine and help support the weight of your head.

7. Good sitting posture/chair Standing desks Take breaks
Sitting is new smoking
An hour of activity can offset the harms that sitting for 8 hours can have
Good sitting posture/chair
Standing desks
Take breaks

8. university of manitoba ergonomics for school children

11. Eero Turunen eero.turunen@mehilainen.fi 0405382285
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Eero Turunen