Using a smartphone during training in the gym can lead to dangerous consequences for the spine and brain. For this mistake in an interview with the medical publication “Dr. Peter” pointed out a neurologist-algologist Valery Chernenko.
According to him, about half of the visitors of the sports centers during occupying on the treadmill, exercise bike or ellipse browse the tapes of social networks, watch video or read news. “If you walk, walk, train, looking at the phone screen, earn a chronic neck injury. And it is forbidden to run with the phone at all!” – said Chernenko.
He called this phenomenon “Press Shrimp” and stressed that the doctors have long described its harm: the neck is experiencing four-time in relation to the usual load, which inevitably leads to headaches, hernias of the intervertebral disc and the appearance of the second chin.