GADGETS AND YOUR NECK PAIN & HEADACHE

IN RECENT YEARS EVERY SECOND YOUNGSTERS IS HAVING NECK PAIN AND HEADACHE. MOST OF THEM ARE IN AGE GROUP OF 16 -35 YEARS. MANY OF THEM GET PANIC AND FIRST THING COMES TO THEIR MIND IS EITHER CERVICAL SPONDYLITIS OR SLIP DISC, AND FOR HEADACHE ALWAYS ONE THING COME THAT IS MIGRAINE.AFTER ALL SORT OF INVESTIGATION (X-RAY, MRI) BEING NORMAL ,OPTED FOR MANY KIND OF TREATMENT , SHORT PERIOD OF PAIN RELIEF AND AGAIN SAME HEAVYNESS IN THE NECK AND PAIN IN THE ARMS AND ALL THE PREVIOUS SYMPTOMS STARTS GRADUALLY.PATIENT THINKS IF ITS NOT CERVICAL SPONDYLITIS NOR  SLIP DISC THEN………. WHAT IS IT?WHY ITS PAINING ?EVERY INDIVIDUAL SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT WHERE THERE IS PAIN THERE IS CAUSE FOR IT. SO IT SHOULD BE TREATED ACCORDINGLY. IN PRESENT DECADE AND FUTURE COMING YEARS ALMOST EVERY INDIVIDUAL IS DEPENDANT ON ELECTRONIC GADGETS .EARLIERS ADOLSCENTS AND YOUNG PEOPLE USED TO PLAY GAMES AND OTHER PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES BUT TODAY YOUNGESTER SPEND MOST OF THE TIME ON COMPUTERS AND ON MOBILE PLAYING GAMES, SURFING ON NET, WATCHING MOVIES AND ETC. SO THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES HAS COME DOWN AND SEDENTARY LIFE STLYE HAS INCREASED REMARKABLY. BECAUSE OF AQUIRING WRONG POSITION WHILE ON COMPUTER AND ON MOBILE  FOR LONG DURATION OUR BODY JOINT ALIGNMENTS CHANGES SPECIALLY IN THE NECK AND  LOWER BACK.BESIDES THIS AGE GROUP SPECIALLY  COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS WHO SITS IN FRONT OF COMPUTER FOR MORE THAN 10 HRS A DAY ARE VERY LIKELY TO SUFFER THIS SORT OF PAIN.OVER USE OF GADGETS LEADS TO ABNORMAL BODY POSTURE AND FINALLY  MUSCULAR WEAKNESS AND TIGHTNESS AROUND THE SHOULDER AND NECK REGION.MANIER TIMES THE WEAKNESS AND TIGHTNESS IS SO CHRONIC THAT THERE IS POSSIBLE LUMP OR SMALL NODES DEVELOPS IN THE COVERING OF MUCSLES. DUE TO THIS REASON INDIVIDUAL GRAUDUALLY  FEELS HEAVINESS IN THE SHOULDER THEN NECK AND FINALLY PAIN IN NECK WHICH REMAINS THROUGHOUT THE  DAY AND ALSO WHILE RESTING.   INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM SUCH KIND OF PAIN NEEDS TO DO FOLLOWING.1.MAINTAINING THE ERECT POSTURE WHILE WORKING ON COMPUTERS.2.DONT SIT IN FRONT OF COMPUTER FOR MORE THAN 20 MIN AT TIMES eg. NEED TO WORK ON COMPUTER  FOR 3 HRS, AFTER EVERY 20 MIN TAKE A BREAK OF 30 SEC. TO 1 MIN. AND  RESUME THE WORK3.DONOT USE MOBILE IN FORWARD HEAD DOWN POSITION.4. DONOT USE COMPUTER, MOBILE OR WATCH TV IN LYING POSITION5.MEET THE PROFESSIONAL (ERGONOMIC ADVISOR) OR  MANUAL PHYSICAL THERAPIST FOR CORRECTION OF SPINAL ALIGNMENTS IN NECK REGION.6.FOLLOW THE THE EXERCISES AS ADVISED BY PHYSICAL THERAPIST. *GADGETS AND HEADACHE PORTION WILL BE CONTINUED IN NEXT WEEK