Feel numbness in your arms and/ or fingers? Have pins and needles or hot/ cold sensations in your arms and fingers? It may be due to “Tech Neck” Syndrome.
On our devices working and reading with the head tilted downwards for long periods of time may easily add close to 27 kg of pressure to the neck. Extra pressure to the neck stiffens the muscles in that area. This in turn may cause nerve compression in the neck.
From the neck exit nerves that supply sensory and motor information to parts of the head and down to the arms, hands, and fingers as well as internally to organs like the heart, lungs, digestive system, and diaphragm. Muscle tension in the neck may compress and irritate the nerves supplying these areas causing pain and discomfort of seemingly unknown origin.
Tension, or body stress in the neck may also cause headaches, pain in the face, or tightness in the jaws. Effects of burning sensations, excessive saliva production or dryness in the mouth may also be felt.
Having difficulties grasping objects?
Feeling dizziness or nausea?
All this could be from those extra 27 kg of pressure to your neck.
It’s like walking around with an 8 year old sitting on your head.
Let us all support our necks. When on our devices, whether for work or pleasure, we should read at eye-level to avoid “Tech Neck” Syndrome.