Mobile technology and the reality that the public at large is constantly connected, is finally starting to show its true colors.

A couple of years ago I started to notice that more and more kids were coming to my office with identical complaints.  They all had various levels of pain and tingling in the exact same areas: neck, shoulder, and tingling and numbness into the upper arms and of course, daily ‘normal stress headaches”.  I’m talking about 8, 9 and 10 year-olds.  What do you think they were doing as a solution?  “Popping pills!”  Consuming over the counter pain meds like I used to eat “Red Hots” in the 60′s.  They were covering or masking their symptoms and pretending that they would just ‘go away’.

Recently during while I was reporting my findings to the mother of a young child, she asked me, “Well, what does she have?”  I looked over at the little girl and noticed that her head was buried in her cell phone with her neck and shoulders bent forward texting someone.  With that, I replied, “It’s simple.  She has “text neck’”  I pointed out the the 10 year-old’s mother that her little girl had a reversed ‘neck curve’ with bone spurs starting to grow – at 10!  So this little girl actually has degenerative bone changes due to Subluxation – thanks to the wonderful world of technology.  Not to mention, this child is “forcing” the pain and tingling to go away by self medicating with drugs so that she can continue the foolish texting that got her into the situation in the first place.  Does this sound like anyone you know?

I asked my little member how often she texts?  She said it was “all day long”.  Her Mom figured it was about 7-8 hours/day or between 10,000 or 30,000 texts a week.  WOW and what about all the other hand-held devices, whether it’s their cell phones, portable video games like Nintendo DS, E-Readers such as Amazon Kindle, or they are just using apps on an I-Phone.  All of this is leading to F.H.P. (Forward Head Posture).  Posture equals function and when the head (weighing 5-10 lbs. in a child) moves forward off its axis, the rest of the body moves forward, as well.  Where the head goes, the body will follow.  Rolled shoulders, a concave chest and often a pelvic tuck can follow.

OK, so we are focusing on the damage texting is doing to our children but it affects adults as well.  Check back tomorrow for part 2 in this series.

Dr. John

We need your help to save more lives.

Our office is busy, but not busy enough!

WHY?

• There are still babies in our community that are not having their spines checked at birth: UNACCEPTABLE!
• Many of the babies and children that are sick/diseased in our community are so because they haven’t been checked for subluxation:  UNACCEPTABLE!
• Our country is the sickest/most diseased industrialized nation in the world and we ingest more pharmaceuticals than any other country: UNACCEPTABLE!
• Last year the #1 cause of death in our country was our medical system: 1.1 million Americans were killed: UNACCEPTABLE!
• Babies are crippled, become autistic, or worse, killed everyday because of vaccinations: UNACCEPTABLE!
• Americans are ingesting an average of 6-8 medications/day: UNACCEPTABLE!
• People are ingesting deadly, unproven, unscientific psychotropic medications, then killing themselves and others: UNACCEPTABLE!
• The #1 cause of sickness and disease is undetected, silent SUBLUXATION of the spine: UNACCEPTABLE!
• Spinal problems are the #1 cause of disease, sickness and early death! UNACCEPTABLE!

No matter what the condition, chiropractic can help…even if the person is well!

Here are ways in which you can help SPREAD THE WORD & ensure that every single adult and child that you know has their nerve system evaluated as soon as possible!

1. Invite them to Our Patient Appreciation Day for a complimentary Subluxation exam.
2. Invite them to our next workshop.
3. Invite them to learn more about the deadly effects of vaccinations @ NVIC.ORG

The time is now.  We can’t wait any longer: our community urgently needs your help!
Please, tell them what you know!