Text Neck: What Looking Down Is Doing to Your Neck
By Eileen Durfee, inventor & Nationally Certified Spinal Fitness Specialist
“Text neck” is what we call forward-head posture caused by hours looking down at phones, tablets, and laptops. The name is casual; the load is not.
Each inch your head drifts forward adds roughly 10 lb of effective load to your neck. Bend your head down to a screen and that load climbs fast — hour after hour, day after day.
Looking down repeatedly trains the head-forward, upper-back-rounded pattern until it becomes your default even when the phone is away. And it usually rides on top of a lower issue: when the pelvis and lumbar curve give way, the upper back rounds and the head goes forward to keep the eyes level. Raising the phone helps posture in the moment; changing the structure is what makes an upright neck your new normal.
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