page_title: IHunch
hierarchical_section_title: IHunch
caption_attribution_description: English: stress points from computer posture
context_page_description: iHunch is the common spinal problem of an excessively kyphotic thoracic spine driving neck pain and cervicogenic headache. It is clinically recognized as a form of repetitive strain injury. The term text neck was first coined by Dr. Dean L. Fishman, a US chiropractor.
  Much bending forward has always caused the problems of a hunched upper back and neck pain, for example in dentists, surgeons, and hairdressers. What has changed in the last decade is the amount, especially in a younger generation who have grown up bending over laptops, tablets and smartphones – hence the term 'iHunch'. Because the problem arises specifically from much bending forward, logical treatment will counter each component of this.
context_section_description: iHunch (also called iPosture, forward head posture, poking chin posture, wearsie neck, computer neck, upper crossed syndrome, text neck, and dowager's hump.) is the common spinal problem of an excessively kyphotic (hunched) thoracic spine driving neck pain and cervicogenic headache. It is clinically recognized as a form of repetitive strain injury. The term text neck was first coined by Dr. Dean L. Fishman, a US chiropractor.
  Much bending forward has always caused the problems of a hunched upper back and neck pain, for example in dentists, surgeons, and hairdressers. What has changed in the last decade is the amount, especially in a younger generation who have grown up bending over laptops, tablets and smartphones – hence the term 'iHunch'. Because the problem arises specifically from much bending forward, logical treatment will counter each component of this.
caption: The iHunch:  (1) Overworked muscles down the back of the neck strengthen, strain, scar and shorten; (2) middle and lower back support muscles weaken; (3) hunching upper back joints eventually freeze like that; (4) muscles at the front of the neck work less and weaken, so chin pokes out.  Results: Upper back pain, neck pain, headache; often referred pain down arms.
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