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How screen addiction is becoming a pain in the neck for teenagers

How screen addiction is becoming a pain in the neck for teenagers

During Covid, when online classes became the norm and outdoor play was banned, many developed text neck syndrome. Even after Covid, there has been no respite in these cases

At age 9, Suyash (name changed) from Mumbai underwent a therapy that few his age do: about a dozen trigger-point injections, over several sessions, directly into the points where the neck muscles and ‘backs were knotted.
Suyash, now 11, needed the ultrasound-guided injections because he developed one musculoskeletal disorder called out text neck syndromeprobably caused by lifestyle reasons such as poor posture and hunching over your cell phone or laptop for both study and recreation.