Teen diagnosed with 'text neck'

Wsls.com It's a physical ailment hitting the tech-savvy generation called "text neck," and doctors say it could cause serious damage. 14-year-old Sarah Atchison of Colorado says she is always looking down at her phone. But looking down at her smart phone, often for hours at a time, left the texting teen with a pain in her neck. "It was mostly just achy, and it made it really hard to concentrate," Sarah describes. "Text neck is where the proper curve in the cervical spine actually gets reduced and can even move forward," said Dr. Chad Cotter, a chiropractor. Dr. Cotter says a good curve is ideally 40 degrees but in Sarah's case, x-rays show a very different story. "This girl has lost that neck curve and it has moved to a classic reverse curve or text neck." Dr. Cotter says he is helping Sarah reverse the damage that used to take decades to develop. "Tension across the shoulders, generalized neck pain, migraines. It can even be numbness and tingling down the arms that we're seeing in high schoolers...