News background: according to the British Sky TV reported on October 7, recently appeared a disease known as “texting neck”. This disease is caused by people using smartphones, tablets and other tools or bending their necks to send text messages for long periods of time, and if left untreated will cause permanent damage. Not long ago, Ciming physical examination agency in Guangzhou city 20,000 to 35 years old office white-collar cervical spine disease incidence statistics show that every hundred people have 25 people suffering from various types of cervical spine disease, and in the frequent use of computers, cell phones and other electronic products in the IT industry, the proportion is as high as 50%;. Due to the use of cell phones and other electronic products caused by the neck discomfort and other health risks are widely spread in the urban population. For these health threats, you need to start at the source, to prevent early prevention. In fact, the so-called “SMS neck disease”, its pathogenesis and cervical spondylosis is the same. Long time focus on head down texting or playing games, the cervical spine will be in a long-term overbending state, making its physiological convexity disappeared, into a straight line or even back convexity, thus causing the neck artery ischemia, neck stiffness, soreness and even fainting. Not only is it a long time to send text messages with your head down, some lesbians are addicted to cross-stitching and other handwork for a long time, but they also feel sore and swollen in the neck, causing acute cervical discomfort. Expert advice: the combination of motion and static protection cervical spine in terms of movement, the best way is to swim, the simplest way is to expand the chest and head stretching action. In terms of static care, you can use hot water bags to heat up the neck at rest to speed up blood circulation and relieve pain. Pain – busy fingers, pain and tendon sheaths Another “hardest hit” area damaged by commonly used digital products is the thumb. Due to the long time use of the thumb to hit the keyboard, it is easy to cause tenosynovitis. The tendon of the thumb is like our waist, and the tendon sheath is like a belt. Repeated wear and tear can thicken the tendon sheath and cause tendonitis, which can be severe enough to require surgery to cut the tendon sheath. This is like a belt tied too tight, the waist can not stand, can only untie the belt, so as to relieve the discomfort of the waist. The experts’ advice: alternate hot and cold practice fingers Proper finger activities can help relieve finger discomfort. May try to practice finger exercises, namely rubbing ten fingers. The ten fingers in order to lightly rub, or shake ten fingers, relax the wrist, pinch one of the fingertips for shaking, so that the whole arm is shaking up. Then soak your fingers in hot water. Hot water soaking is a good way to prevent tendonitis in the thumb, which can promote blood circulation in the thumb. The actual fact is that you will find a lot of people in the subway or bus, in order to pass the time, often one hand pulling the pull ring handrail hanging over the head, the other hand is still holding the phone busy texting or reading the news. I do not know, this situation, the pressure on the shoulder will be very large. Cell phone volume is small, people often operate hand-held cell phone, rigid in a posture, half a day without activity, which will naturally cause shoulder and neck muscle tension, strain, so that people shoulder pain. Expert advice: left and right together to relax the shoulder Hong Zhaoguang, a well-known health education expert, recommends an easy way to relax the muscles, that is, stretch out your hand and use your right hand to shoot the left triceps. After patting, stretch this hand higher and pat the back oblique muscle. When you’re done, switch to your left hand and use your left hand to pat the right triceps, finish patting the shoulder deltoids, and finish patting the back obliques.