Defining text neck: a scoping review.
Tatiana GrasserAmabile Borges DarioPatricia Carmo Silva ParreiraIgor Macedo Tavares CorreiaNey Armando de Mello Meziat FilhoPublished in: European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society (2023)
This study showed that posture is the defining characteristic of text neck in the academic literature. For research purposes, it seems that text neck is a habit of texting on the smartphone in a flexed neck position. Since there is no scientific evidence linking text neck with neck pain regardless of the definition used, adjectives like inappropriate or incorrect should be avoided when intended to qualify posture.
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