BreakingNews·190618 - 智能手機的使用可能會改變我們的頭骨形狀

Scientists say that smartphones are changing the shape of people's skulls. Some people are spending so long looking at smartphones that a small bony bump is appearing above their neck. Doctors say the bump is large enough to feel by pressing the bottom of the skull, just above the neck. Dr David Shahar, a health scientist at the University of The Sunshine Coast in Australia, spoke to the BBC about the discovery. He said: "I have been a clinician for 20 years, and only in the last decade, increasingly, I have been discovering that my patients have this growth on the skull." The bump is becoming more frequent among 18 to 30-year-olds who spend many hours a day hunched over their smartphone.

科學家表示，智能手機正在改變?nèi)祟愵^骨的形狀。有些人長時間盯著智能手機看，脖子上方出現(xiàn)了一個小腫塊。醫(yī)生說，這個腫塊足夠大，按壓頭骨底部就能感覺到，就在脖子上方。澳大利亞陽光海岸大學的健康科學家David Shahar博士向BBC講述了這一發(fā)現(xiàn)。他說:“我當了20年的臨床醫(yī)生，直到最近10年，我才越來越多地發(fā)現(xiàn)，我的病人的顱骨上有這種生長。”這種情況在18歲至30歲的人群中越來越常見，他們每天花很多時間低頭看智能手機。

A study led by Dr Shahar looked at the smartphone use of 1,200 people aged 18 to 86. Shahar said 18 to 30-year-olds were more likely to have the skull bumps than older generations. He said the bumps will probably be more common as we spend longer bending our necks while looking at their phones. Doctors say the bump could come from constantly bending the neck at unnatural angles to look at digital devices. Our head weighs about 4.5 kilograms and bending our head at the same angle for a long time can strain the neck. Doctors are calling this strain "text neck". They say the skull bump rarely causes health issues. They advised people to change their posture if their neck becomes sore.

沙哈爾博士領(lǐng)導的一項研究，觀察了1200名18歲至86歲的人使用智能手機的情況。沙哈爾說，18到30歲的人比老一輩人更有可能有顱骨腫塊。他說，隨著我們低頭看手機的時間越來越長，這種情況可能會越來越常見。醫(yī)生說，這種腫塊可能是由于在看數(shù)碼設(shè)備時，頸部不斷以不自然的角度彎曲造成的。我們的頭部大約有4.5公斤重，長時間以同樣的角度彎曲頭部會使頸部緊張。醫(yī)生稱這種病毒為“短信脖”。他們說頭骨撞擊很少會導致健康問題。他們建議人們在頸部疼痛時改變姿勢。