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Your iPhone Is Ruining Your Posture — and Your Mood

December 12, 2015 · The New York Times (opinion) · Read the original ↗

Social psychologist Amy Cuddy argued in the Times that the collapsed posture of phone use doesn't just strain the neck — it drags mood and confidence down with it, citing the posture-stress research. A psychologist made the body-mind case to millions, a decade ago.

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The posture-mood connection was mainstream opinion-page material in 2015. The chiropractic voice in that conversation: absent.
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An opinion essay resting on association, not proof — but the pattern matches the trial evidence: slump and mood move together, and uncurling is free to test.
●●●  Association — pattern, not proof of cause · For: Adults
☀ Use it — Before you answer the next message, uncurl — stand up, shoulders back, then reply. Her point in one rep: posture talks back to mood.

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