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The Text Neck: Can Smartphone Apps with Biofeedback Aid in the Prevention of This Syndrome

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Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation III (ICNR 2018)

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The abuse of the smartphone technology is today causing a new syndrome, called the text neck. This syndrome damages the neuro-musculoskeletal apparatus. It is recorded in subjects of different ages and in particular among young people. A Medical App for the self-care in the text neck prevention has been proposed. This App returns: (a) a biofeedback on correct/incorrect posture; (b) a temporal accumulation function that indicates how long a subject is using the device and (c) a set of programmed postural exercises. The App was instrumentally validated in diminishing the neck tilt (related to the text neck), using wearable technologies, on a group of 15 young subjects.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge Antonio Grieco the President of the Corso di Laurea in Fioterapia sede di Villa Immacolata in San Martino (VT).

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  1. Centro Nazionale sulle tecnologie innovative in sanità pubblica, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

    D. Giansanti & G. Maccioni

  2. Corso di Laurea in Fioterapia sede di Villa Immacolata, San Martino VT, Italy

    L. Colombaretti, R. Simeoni & G. Maccioni

  3. Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy

    L. Colombaretti, R. Simeoni & G. Maccioni

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  1. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Lorenzo Masia

  2. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Translational Neural Engineering Area, The BioRobotics Institute, Pisa, Italy

    Silvestro Micera

  3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Cullen College of Engineering, Houston, TX, USA

    Metin Akay

  4. Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

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Giansanti, D., Colombaretti, L., Simeoni, R., Maccioni, G. (2019). The Text Neck: Can Smartphone Apps with Biofeedback Aid in the Prevention of This Syndrome. In: Masia, L., Micera, S., Akay, M., Pons, J. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation III. ICNR 2018. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01845-0_150

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