Your smartphone doesn’t need to break your concentration to affect your body… it may only need you to keep holding it.
Smartphones have turned hours of looking down, gripping a small device, and repeatedly moving a thumb into ordinary daily behavior, and researchers are finding measurable physical consequences. Prolonged phone use has been associated with neck and upper-body discomfort, while repetitive hand movements can place additional stress on the fingers, thumbs, and wrists.
The science, however, does not justify blaming smartphones for every modern physical problem.
Neck strain and posture have stronger evidence behind them, while claims…
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