According to data from DataReportal, the average American spends seven hours and 4 minutes looking at a screen every day. Another study by the University of California San Francisco found that U.S. adolescents' screen time doubled their non-school-related screen time to 7.7 hours in May 2020, compared to just 3.8 hours the day before the pandemic.
Does tech neck affect the neck, upper back, shoulders, and arms? A study looking at the association between forward head, rounded shoulders, and thoracic kyphosis concludes that these can exist alone or in any combination.
According to Kendall et al., there should be vertical alignment between the midline of the shoulder and the mastoid process.
Chiropractors are uniquely skilled to treat tech neck.
