Using an iPad for too long could be bad for your health according to the head honchos over in the Harvard School of Public Health.
JOE’s sports nut, Conor Heneghan, has recently begun explaining sports injuries to us all, which you can check out here. However, there’s one injury that we just can’t get our heads around, and that injury is ‘iPad shoulder’.
We’ve heard of ‘tennis elbow’ and ‘footballer’s feet’, but ‘iPad shoulder’ is certainly a new one to us.
If you own an iPad (or any tablet computer for that matter) you’re at risk of getting ‘iPad shoulder’ or ‘iPad neck’ because a tablet held low down on your lap means you have to look down sharply at the screen, increasing the pressure on your joints, reports the Irish Independent.
Study author Dr Jack Dennerlein said: “Compared to typical desktop computing, the use of tablet computers is associated with high head and neck flexion postures.
“Only when the tablets were used in the table-movie configuration, where the devices were set at their steepest case angle setting and at the greatest horizontal and vertical position, did posture approach neutral.”
So what can you do to avoid having to tell your boss you’re out of work thanks to iPad shoulder? Well, according to the researchers, tablet users should place the tablet higher, on a table rather than a lap, to avoid low gaze angles.
Better go stock up on tablets for your ‘iPad shoulder’ so.
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