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Mobile phones a pain in the neck? Surge in young people suffering from 'text neck'
More young people suffer from neck, wrist and back problems from excessive phone use
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Ms Henna Chhetri suffered from "text neck" in 2016 when she used to spend five hours a day hunched over her phone or laptop.
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Calvin Yang
That cautionary tale about the mobile phone and the damage it can do to your health just got real.
Orthopaedic surgeons and chiropractors have seen a surge in young people - some as young as six - with neck aches, wrist injuries and back pains.
