With fast moving life, laptops are no longer a luxury but a necessity and thanks to the price fall, which has increased users’ access to this wireless technology. However, all that came with laptops isn’t good but some bad has also managed to seep into our lives, with back problems, becoming common, as laptops are killing our spines
It is quite strange to know that girls as young as 12 are being diagnosed with nerve damage caused by slouching over screens for hours. Actually, while sitting before a laptop our body instinctively adopts a poor posture, giving way to several problems associated with necks, shoulders, spines, etc. Confirming this fact further back specialists unveils that four in five patients working on portable PCs or laptops sustain chronic nerve damage, sooner or later.
Desktop computers are designed in such a way that ensure a healthy body posture while working on it, however, quite opposite is the case with laptops, as perching a laptop on the legs and then staring down at the monitor, and puts unnecessary strain on neck, spine and legs, giving way to several health related problems.
How countries like Britain are fast turning into a nation of slouch potatoes due to boom in the number of laptop users could be explained through the delineation, presented by London-based chiropractor Michael Durntall, in his words:
I also see many people in their twenties and thirties with a dowager’s hump - a rounding at the base of the neck - after only a few years of looking down at a small screen while sitting slumped on a chair for long periods.
Studies have also proved that long working on laptops prevents the nerves and tendons from moving freely, as they normally moves, which increases susceptibility to nerve injuries. In addition, other health hazards that laptop use has been accredited with can also not be left unmentioned, like-
• Laptop Computers May Affect Male Fertility
• Laptops ‘pose health risk to children’
So, in brief, it could be asserted that where advent of wireless technology, in the form of laptop, has revolutionized the way we live, it has also exposed us to some severe threats, befalling on us in the form of neck, shoulder and spine related problems.
Therefore, dire need of rational approach towards laptop’s use is seriously required; otherwise, it won’t take too long to turn this world, inhibited by dowager’s humped people.
Via: Daily mail
