Steps to Eliminate The Body Aches Caused by Your Phone

 Phones are everywhere and so is pain!

Whether you have the latest versions of the most trending phones, or pulling out your old phone stirs conversations of "back-then", you are at risk of suffering tremendous body aches by virtue of owning one.
You may not have realized it, but many of the physical discomforts you have, can be alleviated and can even disappear if you adopt better phone habits and consciously follow through with them. Here are the steps to eliminate the body aches caused by your phone.

EYES

Do your eyes get heavy, watery and painful when you use your phone? For some, prolonged phone use can cause discomfort in the eyes and they may not even be aware. If you use your phone for long hours for work or leisure, be sure to adjust the screen lighting to suit the environment you are in and the time of day. If your space is poorly lit, you will want to turn up the brightness moderately to avoid straining to see what is on your screen. Similarly, if your space is well lit, even by natural lighting, then you wouldn't need the extra brightness from your phone. Check regularly to ensure you do not forget to adjust and re-adjust in situations like these.

To add, try as much as possible to minimize your "screen time" right before bedtime. Staring at the glare from your phone minutes before bed can contribute to wakefulness at nights and sored eyes. Ensure too, that the font styles and fonts you use are suitable for you to read and understand clearly without strain. Who wants stylish fonts that damages the eyes?

NECK & BACK

Believe it or not, the necks and backs of millions of people are straining this minute as they use their phones, and you may be included too! Sit and stand upright. Avoid all slouching postures. Raise your neck to look to the ceiling or sky, gently lower it to a halt, where you are seemingly looking outward, to the center of where you are sitting or standing. Raise the hand holding your phone outward to your chest. Hold it slightly lower than your eyes. Keep your neck and back supported with an upright posture. And if you are laying, monitor the unusual curves in your neck and back just the same. 

Have you ever seen someone flex their neck after finally raising it from their phones? Imagine doing that every time you use your phone. The flexing doesn't solve the problem. Keep "Text Neck" and back pain caused from slouching at bay, by practicing good posture.

CHEST

You are not off the hook just yet. So don't start celebrating that you have no chest pain. What about that time you were laying on your back, hand (s) mid-air with phone, when suddenly it fell onto your chest?! Did you love that feeling? Poor chest. Maybe you will want to get a pop socket. It is a phone accessory that allows for a good grip of one's phone from the back to prevent it from falling. You can choose from a variety of colours and styles and can customize it as well.

HANDS

Don't believe me? Ask your friends what letter of the alphabet you look like when you are stretching to get that perfect selfie. The hands are stretched or placed at unusual lengths and angles for the great photo opportunity. In that moment, you will not mind or may not even be mindful of the predicament. A selfie stick may help or simply asking someone to take pictures for you. As for stretching your hands like an antenna for phone signal - that may become necessity sometimes. That doesn't mean that your hands are not feeling the pinch though.

STOMACH

Yes. Food is included. How often do you ignore the pangs of hunger or thirst just because you are consumed by the features or uses of your phone. Is is necessary?  Nope. This is a reminder as well, to check in with children to monitor their screen time, ensuring they eat actual foods and not the digitized foods in games. The next time you find yourself scrolling through the food emojis with a rousing appetite or trading food time for phone time- go get something to eat and or drink.

Lady Justice, bodily aches may not always appear when we expect them to. They may appear long after the initial cause when you have forgotten what may be causing them. It is good to be consciously aware of the things that are contributing to the aches we feel now or may feel later. Remember, it is you who are in control of your phone. When it falls, that's enough pain for you. Do not add more pain by compromising the body parts identified.