If sitting is the new smoking, text neck is the new tetanus. Or not, I know that doesn't even make sense. But sitting too much is bad. And so is hanging your head off of your cervical vertebrae. "The human head weighs about a dozen pounds. But as the neck bends forward and down, the weight on the cervical spine begins to increase. At a 15-degree angle, this weight is about 27 pounds, at 30 degrees it’s 40 pounds, at 45 degrees it’s 49 pounds, and at 60 degrees it’s 60 pounds."- Lindsey Bever And it's painful and if you do it enough. “As you stretch the tissue for a long period of time, it gets sore, it gets inflamed,” he said. It can also cause muscle strain, … [Read more...]