“Text Neck”

“The way medical professionals describe you staring down at your phone for too long.”

Turns out Instagram can be both emotionally and physically damaging.

“It is an epidemic or, at least, it’s very common,” Kenneth Hansraj, chief of spine surgery at New York Spine Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine.

“The problem is really profound in young people,” he said. “With this excessive stress in the neck, we might start seeing young people needing spine care.”

 Some say for every inch the head tilts forward, the pressure on the spine doubles.

The solution?

Just look down with your eyes, not your neck. Or, do some neck exercises my friends.