topic Re: Future posture problems? in Community Spirit

Future posture problems?

lloydslights — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:09:26 GMT

I am really concerned about young peoples' slouching habits whilst with their handheld paraphernalia. Their necks are bent over to view screens. They curl around their seats, floor, beds, etc. Their thumbs are going flat out. Mostly over an extended time.

Remember when the Globite schoolcase was swapped over for backpacks to alleviate growing childrens' spine problems? (Although they too created problems with the weight of their books.)

Do you feel similarly?

DEB

Re: Future posture problems?

polksaladallie — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 01:11:45 GMT

This is not about posture. But apparently the rate of myopia in children and young adults has soared, because a whole generation has spent a lot of their time looking at close-up screens, and not looking at distances, (not put very well), so their vision has been changed.

Re: Future posture problems?

darksideofthemoon — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 19:58:48 GMT

So in the future we will have bent, myopic adults with big thumbs... don't laugh, you could be right

Re: Future posture problems?

lind9650 — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 05:59:52 GMT

Vision and posture are at stake for future generations. The children are sttill growing and will evntually be troubled with back problems as well as vision impairment.

I remember when I went to School, our teacher would poke a ruler at our back whenever we hunched over our desk. "Sit up straight! Chest out and shoulders back" she would say, and when one did not listen, she would place a stick at our back that we had to hold with both arms, elbows bent around around the stick for at least tten minutes.

I still remember each time I catch myself hunched over my laptop.

Erica