Carlsbad Chiropractor - Dr. Brian Wofford - Is Texting Hurting Your Neck?

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Is Texting Hurting Your Neck?

On average, how many minutes a day do you think you spend on your smartphone texting, checking your email, playing games, or searching one of your many downloaded apps? Ten? Twenty? Sixty? More?
A recent study from the Journal of Behavioral Addictions that has found that young woman typically spend 10 hours daily engaged with their cell phones. No, that isn’t a typo. They spend roughly ten hours.
Whether you’re spending this much time texting or conducting any other business on your phone or not, the impact on your neck after even a few minutes can cause you a tremendous amount of issues. Issues that you feel today, as well as years down the road.

The Effects of Texting on Your Neck

The Chief of Spine Surgery with New York Spine Surgery & Rehabilitation Medicine, has studied this effect and found that the force of having your head tilted forward for long periods of time has damaging results on the cervical area of your spine (your neck region). And the more your head is tilted forward, the greater the effects.

A human head weighs somewhere around 11 pounds. Therefore, when you are standing or sitting with good posture (which is defined as head sitting squarely on your shoulders with your shoulders down and back), there is around 11 pounds of force straight downward on your cervical spine.
Now, if you lean forward just slightly, creating a 15 degree angle in your neck, that amount of pressure more than doubles, increasing to 27 pounds. In essence, it is like your head now weighs 27 pounds which, as you can imagine, would put an extreme amount of pressure on your neck while trying to hold it up.

 

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Many common complaints are headaches, lower back pain, neck pain, leg/arm pain, sciatica and those who suffer with whiplash from a car accident. We believe in rehabilitation, stretching and using physical therapy machines if it's for your best interest and overall fitness of your body. We are equipped with state of the art physical therapy machines. We have a spinal decompression table, which is wonderful for people suffering with disc compression, disc herniation, disc protrusion, arthritis, and vertebral stenosis. The usual symptoms are pains that tend to radiate out and possibly down one arm or both arms or it may be pain/tingling or numbness down one leg or both legs. When pain is referred down into the leg or legs it is commonly referred to as sciatica. 

 Being in a car accident is a very difficult situation on a number of levels. Your pain is sometimes secondary to the aftermath of having your car at the mechanic as well as the stress of dealing with your insurance and potentially missing work.

While you are in a hurry to get your car fixed and back to normal activities, make sure to see your chiropractor before you make any major decisions. There could be underlying injuries that a minor stiff neck is not allowing you to uncover. A car accident is a major event and the trauma that comes from them could be significant.

Chiropractic care works well for those who suffer with headaches, lower back pain, neck pain, leg/arm pain, sciatica and injuries sustained from Auto Accidents!

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Many common complaints are headaches, lower back pain, neck pain, leg/arm pain, sciatica and those who suffer with whiplash from a car accident. We believe in rehabilitation, stretching and using physical therapy machines if it's for your best interest and overall fitness of your body. We are equipped with state of the art physical therapy machines. We have a spinal decompression table, which is wonderful for people suffering with disc compression, disc herniation, disc protrusion, arthritis, and vertebral stenosis. The usual symptoms are pains that tend to radiate out and possibly down one arm or both arms or it may be pain/tingling or numbness down one leg or both legs. When pain is referred down into the leg or legs it is commonly referred to as sciatica. 

 Being in a car accident is a very difficult situation on a number of levels. Your pain is sometimes secondary to the aftermath of having your car at the mechanic as well as the stress of dealing with your insurance and potentially missing work.

While you are in a hurry to get your car fixed and back to normal activities, make sure to see your chiropractor before you make any major decisions. There could be underlying injuries that a minor stiff neck is not allowing you to uncover. A car accident is a major event and the trauma that comes from them could be significant.

Chiropractic care works well for those who suffer with headaches, lower back pain, neck pain, leg/arm pain, sciatica and injuries sustained from Auto Accidents!

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 Most minimum wage workers stand for long hours, perform repetitive motions and are under high amounts of stress to increase output. "Low back pain (LBP) continues to be one of the costliest work-related injuries in the United States in terms of disability and treatment costs" (Cifuentes, 2011). Oftentimes, workers do not have sick pay and do not have time to recuperate or seek proper medical attention for their injuries, typically musculoskeletal in nature, nor do they have the financial means to seek out such care. Retail, mechanic/automotive, hair/nail stylist, food, factory, airline, lawn maintenance and hospitality employees all work long hours with low wages, with minimal or no benefits to cover typical medical costs or alternative healthcare options.

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Dr. Brian Wofford specializes in sports chiropractic to help his practice members achieve total body balance and peak performance.  He is passionate about helping people get healthy, prevent sports injuries, and maintain optimum function.  Sports chiropractic care has been shown to help weekend warriors and elite athletes to improve posture, increase range of motion, increase balance, reduce pain, and improve overall athletic performance. 

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