Text Neck

Here's an interesting topic outside of sports, but still has a connection to the athletic world.

Within a few hours of training we focus on correcting our athlete's posture so that they can perform at their highest level. However, all this time used to correct issues in our athletes' bodies can be undone just by being in a misaligned posture with the remainder of their day. 

“Text Neck” refers to the position of a person’s neck when they look down to text, read articles, watch videos, etc. on their smartphone. The problem with this position is that the head is moved further from the person’s midline. That causes the strain that the weight of the head puts on the neck to increase which may eventually require an operation to correct it. For 15 degrees of forward head movement, the pressure on the cervical spine increases about 10 pounds. Check out this link and/or google "Text Neck" to learn more about this goal epidemic.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/11/20/text-neck-is-becoming-an-epidemic-and-could-wreck-your-spine/