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Combat Text Neck with PT Solutions

Text neck syndrome is an overuse injury caused by prolonged forward bending of the neck to look at mobile devices. This puts increased weight and pressure on the cervical spine and can lead to chronic headaches, back pain, increased spinal curvature, arthritis, decreased lung capacity, and nerve or muscle damage over time. Physical therapy can help by evaluating the issue, designing a treatment plan involving hands-on therapy, exercises, and postural training to improve strength and stability and help prevent long-term issues.

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Combat Text Neck with PT Solutions

Text neck syndrome is an overuse injury caused by prolonged forward bending of the neck to look at mobile devices. This puts increased weight and pressure on the cervical spine and can lead to chronic headaches, back pain, increased spinal curvature, arthritis, decreased lung capacity, and nerve or muscle damage over time. Physical therapy can help by evaluating the issue, designing a treatment plan involving hands-on therapy, exercises, and postural training to improve strength and stability and help prevent long-term issues.

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TEXT NECK SYNDROME

Text Neck is an overuse syndrome or a repetitive stress injury, where the head is brought forward
and the neck bends as you look down at your cell phone, iPad, or other device for an extended time.
This causes increase weight and pressure on the cervical spine.

Helpful Tips:
1) Take frequent breaks from your activities.
2) Hold mobile devices at eye level so you are no straining the neck.
3) Do neck stretches and corrective exercises daily
4) Strengthen the back and shoulder muscles 2-3x/week.
5) Incorporate posture centered exercise

Forward head posture may result in:


 Chronic Headaches
 Back Pain
 Increased curvature of spine
 Early onset of Arthritis
 Decreased Lung Capacity Photo Courtesy Washington Post

 Muscle damage
 Nerve damage
 Disc herniation
How physical therapy helps
 Disc compression A physical therapist will perform a thorough evaluation and then
design a treatment plan that will facilitate improving your neck
posture over time. The treatment includes hands on therapy,
stretching, special exercises and postural re–training, improving
strength and stability. In addition, we work with you on how to
optimize home/work environments for optimal postural positioning.

Greenhaus Physical Therapy Fitness and Wellness Center


150 Woodbury Road, Woodbury, New York 11797 Ph • 516.367.1111 • Fax 516.367.3701
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