Chiropractor Ken Frederick Explains Why Cell Phones May Have Long-Term Negative Effects On Humans

Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Chiropractors.Media

It amazes me since the personal mobile device, the smartphone, has been invented, the number of young kids who are glued to that damn screen and the position they take when they’re watching it. I mean, let alone somebody walking down the street, but just sitting on the couch, a chair, a table, and they’re like this constantly. Does that, I mean, obviously logic tells me that does something to their structure, am I correct?

Ken Frederick – Chiropractor – Port Orchard, Washington

You are correct, we are designed to have a curve in our neck to support the weight of our head. Okay. Our head weighs about the same as a bowling ball. The bones in our neck, called cervical vertebrae, are really tiny compared to the bones in our low back, called lumbar vertebrae. And a curve is structurally hundreds of times stronger than something that’s straight up and down.

The curve that we have is called a lordotic curve so that we can look up. That is a natural curve. That curve has weight distributed amongst all seven bones in our neck. That is a proper function. Bones do not degenerate as fast. Everything goes according to plan.

What you’re talking about with the young kids these days is tech neck. That is a reversal of the natural cervical curve, and it cannot take the stress of the weight of our head. And so, what will happen is that the body will try to make the neck stronger, the only way it can, and fuse it. Takes many years, decades, but it will fuse, which brings in a whole host of problems. Along the way, there’s a lot of neck pain, you know, along the way, people will go, gee, I wonder what’s wrong. I’ll take an x-ray and there it is. It’s a reverse cervical curve and we can retrain it. Most of the time I can teach my patients how to do it themselves at home.