Regular phone use may have significant consequences on our health
BY Samuel Mathis, MD Recently, I read an article in Lancet Rheumatology that documented the growing prevalence of neck pain worldwide. Over the past 30 years, from 1990-2020, neck pain has increased slightly, around 0.2%. However, the trend that has occurred recently projects that the prevalence of chronic neck pain will increase by 32.5% over the next 30 years (1). This could cause significant issues in the future with this increased burden of disease....