Well, hello, hello, guys, you're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K's Secrets of a Plastic

Surgeon, and it's time for a five-minute

Friday. Let's talk about Tech Neck. And if you don't know about Tech Neck, you really should learn about it.

It's also called Text Neck, and it's a modern term for long-standing problems created by bending your neck chronically, usually looking

down at your cell phone, your computer, or maybe even a book you're reading. And you can have neck

discomfort due to repeated strain and damage to the muscles and tissues of your C-spine,

your cervical spinal cord. And the underlying cause of

technique is our advancements in screen technology, which require us to look down at our phones all day.

And gone are the days when we're looking up to catch that tennis ball, or we are looking at the

mountains and the scenic waves, right? It feels like we're always at work, no matter where we are,

we're on our phones. But you can get dull pain, stiffness, numbness, and tingling in your

fingertips, your cervical spine. The discs between those spinal column vertebral bodies are very

delicate matter. And those are the only padding that's providing compression,

compliance, and, you know, mobility to joints. If we don't have good discs, we have compression

of the nerve roots exiting the discs. We get numbness, tingling, joint pains, finger problems. So if you're experiencing

any of those, one of the main reasons can be for repeat, wear and tear. If you're an injector and

you're always tilting your head, tilting your neck, injecting with your right hand like I do,

sometimes you can get even repetitive strain from chronically peering

tilting your head sideways so try to practice being ambidextrous practice tilting your head in both

directions or maintaining a neutral stance and definitely think about the amount of pressure that's

placed on your spine with different positional tilts of the head.

So if you tilt your head zero degrees, that's perfect.

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