Back Neck and Shoulder Pain
Does your Ipad or Tablet cause you back and neck pain?
Doctor, I’ve got iPad shoulder!
The Apple gadget that was supposed to make life easier by freeing us from our desktop PCs causes you pain as you hunch over to see the screen.
Health Problems
The Ipad is portability and user friendly however owning one might present a hidden health problem.
Researchers have identified a condition they are calling ‘iPad neck’, in which users develop a stiff neck and shoulders.
A test has taken place at Harvard University comparing the Ipads discomfort along side other Tablets and Study leader Dr Jack Dennerlein has said,
“people flexed their necks more when using media tablets compared to typical desktop computers” and that “There may be more of a concern for the development of neck and shoulder discomfort”.
The Results
Researchers felt that the “heads and necks of the users were bent more in general when using the tablets than has been reported for desktop or notebook computing and that only when the tablets were used in the Table-Movie configuration, where the devices were set at their steepest case angle setting and at the greatest horizontal and vertical position, did posture approach neutral.”
If you are getting pain from using a portable computer or for every day administration duties have a look at our article “Posture guidance for computer users”:
Nigel Braybrooke
Source: Daily Mail (January 2012)(Online)http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2091681/Doctor-Ive-got-iPad-shoulder-Using-Apple-gadget-lap-causes-pain-hunch-screen.html#ixzz1mGBXYhIB
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