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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Anna Bartter

Tech Neck Bothering You? 5 Expert-Approved Posture Exercises to Ease Pain and Improve Mobility

Best posture exercises: A woman stretching her legs on a track.

You'd be hard pushed to find someone who's never had a neck twinge in their life. In this technological age, neck pain is pretty much unavoidable, largely thanks to so many of us spending up to nine hours a day hunched over our work screens, scrolling on our phones, or slouching on the sofa

While all of those things are totally fine to enjoy in moderation, it's clear that our increasingly screen-based lives aren't doing us - or, more importantly, our spines - any favours. Research, such as this study, published in the journal Acta Medica Academica, shows that neck pain is a leading global cause of disability. It's something that an estimated 70% of us will suffer with at some point in our lives.

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