Teens' compulsive texting can cause neck injury, experts warn

Dean Fishman, a chiropractor in Florida, was examining an X-ray of a 17-year-old patient's neck in 2009 when he noticed something unusual. The ghostly image of her vertebral column showed a reversal of the curvature that normally appears in the cervical spine - a degenerative state he'd most often seen in middle-aged people who had spent several decades of their life in poor posture.

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