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Tech Neck: constantly looking down at your phone supposedly makes you look old

Rob Beschizza
Mar 27, 2026
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The Wall Street Journal reports a sudden panic over “tech neck,” the result of spending too much time looking down at your phone. Though the medical risks were already well established—shoulder pain and stiffness, headaches, numbness, degenerative changes in the cervical spine—a more ominous complication has emerged. It causes

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