Careful, Your Phone Could Actually Be Hurting Your Body!

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On July 13th, a news report about how mobile phones could affect human bones caused panic among netizens.

Nowadays, cell phones have occupied most of our time, no matter what we are doing. Walking, sitting or having dinner with friends, even chatting with families, everyone bows to their phone when using it. However, most don't know how their posture when using a phone could lead to problems.

How Phones Can Affect Your Head

According to a study from an Australian scholar, which was released in Scientific Report magazine, the bones in the back of a persons' head can change due to using a phone for a long period. The study used 1,200 X-rays of adults, to identify the effects.

As per the study, using a mobile phone with a bad posture, could cause a lateral occipital eminence, which is a thorn-like bone, and is around 10-30mm long.

This may seem rare, but actually could affect up to 41% of adults, according to the study.

Below are the X-rays of two men, 28-years-old and 58-years-old respectively, that are suffering from this issue.

Your Fingers Could Suffer Too

Have you ever noticed both of your two little fingers are slightly bent?

A possible cause of this is holding your mobile phone. The mobile phones' shape causes the middle part of the first and second joints to pit.

Your Spin Suffers a Lot...

Possibly the most serious body part that suffers from phone use, is the spine.

The Rehabilitation Medical Center of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University collected more than 200 cases of adolescent cervical issues.

More than half of the children suffered from cervical vertebra curvature, as well as other related spinal issues. The surprising part is that all the children were heavy users of electronic products.

In addition, the incidence of cervical spondylosis in China now accounts for about 7% to 10% of the population, and has been increasing year by year.

In an interview with Yangtze Evening News on November 2nd, 2014, Hang Baiya, the chief physician of Orthopaedics and Traumatology in Nanjing Hospital of Chinese Medicine, said that cervical spondylosis can cause at least 70 diseases in the whole body, such as paraplegia, cataplexy, hypertension and so on.

Dr Margarita Notting, the chairwoman of the European Spine, had already told the news staff in 2017 that people usually raised their heads, so that their necks only needed to bear about 5 kg of weight. But when people look at mobile phones or other electronic devices, they tend lean their heads forward by 60 degrees, which causes their necks to bear 25-30 kg of weight.

In other words, it was like carrying a small child on your neck at all times.

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