Please take a break.
Gen Zers are quitting their jobs due to the same aches and pains as their elders, but at alarmingly high rates.
In a new opinion poll, According to Daily MailWhile 24% of workers aged 16 to 26 said they used neck or back pain as an excuse to miss work this year, fewer workers aged 59 and older, also known as baby boomers, did the same. It was only 14%. Meanwhile, Millennials, ages 27 to 42, fell in the middle at 18%, while just 12% of Gen Xers, ages 43 to 58, cited the same pain.
The study was conducted by biotechnology company Alvika Medical among 2,000 people.
Victoria Frandsen, CEO of the company, said: “They are the most influenced in their work and there is certainly a correlation between this and them being the first generation of true digital natives. “There is.”
Across all ages combined, 63% reported experiencing back and neck pain in the past 12 months.
Doctors have long warned young people about the looming threat of so-called “tech neck,” a curvature in the upper spine caused by years of poor posture from looking down at smartphones and tablets for hours a day. Ta.
Chiropractor Jake Boyle, @desmoineschiro on TikTok; recently shared Alarming X-ray images of young men with crooked necks he saw at a clinic in Iowa.
“If you're under 35, be careful. We're all turning into slouchy old men, but there's a reason behind it,” he said.
Mr Boyle's hunchback Zoomer is consistent with evidence of skeletal “horns” growing from the base of some young people's skulls, which are also said to be the result of mobile phone use.
This strange phenomenon is called the external occipital protuberance. First noted by French scientist Paul Broca in 1885, the condition is so rare that it has been almost completely overlooked until now.
David Shahar, a biomechanical researcher and clinician at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, told the BBC in 2019 that he had only seen patients with this deformity “in the last 10 years”. .
Shahur previously published research in the Journal of Anatomy on the external occipital protuberance, which suggests that mobile device users' habitual hunched neck posture may cause the neck muscles to contact the skull. We hypothesized that extra pressure might be exerted.
“Imagine if you have stalactites and stalagmites, and if no one cares about them, they will continue to grow,” he warned.
