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Keep Your Head Up: 'Text Neck' Takes A Toll On The Spine

November 20, 2014 · NPR · Read the original ↗

NPR carried the text-neck warning to its national audience the same week as the Post — again through the surgeon who modeled the loads. (NPR member-station carriage; the national segment ran on Morning Edition.)

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Even public radio's version of our core story had no chiropractor in it. The science traveled; the profession didn't.
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The warning traveled nationwide and the direction is sound — built on a model's loads, with the profession that named the problem still outside the story.
●●●  Association — pattern, not proof of cause · For: Everyone
☀ Use it — Family rule with a headline behind it: phones come up to eye level at the table. Keep your head up is the habit and the headline.

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