Young people develop bone spurs at base of skull from looking down at smartphones
Painful.
"The study, which was published last year in the journal Scientific Reports, indeed found bony growths on the bases on skulls of around 400 adults, ages 18 to 86. And younger people were found to have larger growths."
As an avid reader, I don't slouch over books like a ghoul. I hold books up to read.
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Study called into question.
1of5
Level 8
June 21, 2019
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Beat me to it, ya bugger! Love Ars Technica, helps me get my geek on.
Wow!
We are becoming a bone spur nation!
of-the-mountain
Level 9
June 20, 2019
1
i regularly examine my navel for lint. haven't noticed any bone spurs yet.
callmedubious
Level 8
June 20, 2019
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now that i think of it i've done most of my reading in a supine position.
if looking down at phones caused this why didn't looking down at books do the same?
davers
Level 7
June 20, 2019
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@davers, @motrubl47u
A lifelong voracious reader, I hold up books to read.
I don't slouch over books. No neck pain or bone spurs.
@LiterateHiker Just arm ache I presume. 
Since age 21, I have lifted weights.
Reading gives me rapture. It's painless.
@LiterateHiker Ok now I'm going to be pedantic, I guarantee you have not been reading anything for your entire life. 
Like my siblings, I was reading sentences at age three. Close enough.
Was asked to skip two grades: from fourth to seventh grade. Stubbornly refused.
About 4' tall, I was afraid junior high bullies would shove me into a locker and leave me there to die.
@LiterateHiker I was referring to your use of the phrase "my entire life" and as your obviously still alive you haven't experienced your entire life yet.Sorry I was just being facetious, my bad.
Can they tie it into phone use?
michaelj
Level 7
June 20, 2019
0
Yes.
Not true. Another rumor. But a pretty cool idea.
Kind of "Hellboy-like".... 
bigpawbullets
Level 9
June 20, 2019
1
So.....that didn't happen from reading writing?
Sounds bogus to me.
BufftonBeotch
Level 8
June 20, 2019
3
As a voracious reader my entire life, I hold up books to read.
I don't hunch over books like a ghoul. No neck pain or bone spurs.
I have one from carrying big waiter trays. The real pathologist that the show Bones was based on identified a dead waiter that way. 30 plus years later I still had a small prominence on my shoulder.We had a skeleton with them high up on their tibia. Maybe a ballerina or constantly trying to correct for high heels?
Buttercup
Level 8
June 20, 2019
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