time now for our life and info segment where we focus on information that's
useful for your everyday life whether you're watching us in Korea or somewhere
else around the world these days almost everyone has a smartphone and uses it
from the time they wake up to when they go to bed and today we're going to talk
about some useful tips to reduce the negative health effects that come from
overuse of smartphones it's affecting an increasing number of people I'm happy to
say we have our chess young in the studio to tell us about these health
issues and how to reduce them so she on just described some of the issues that
can be brought on by excessive use of smartphones well right the most common
health problem is neck pain because people tilt their head forward while
using a phone and that puts weight on your neck now tilting the head for too
long now that causes repeated stress and pain now your neck is supposed to have a
natural curve as you can see on the left of this picture but as you keep tilting
your head forward for a long period of time looking at your smartphone that
curve becomes straighter the curve helps to better distribute weight now without
it then that cannot distribute weight so you'll get pain right well looking at
that picture there it does look very painful if you do have an abnormal neck
condition and when you take the subway you see all the rows of people lined up
with their smartphones or crow bending over looking into them so it really
isn't good so if you've lost the curve what can you do to regain it if you're
already suffering from this kind of neck pain well I've got some tips from
doctors on just how to do that now why don't we take a lesson if the pain isn't
too bad you can just do simple neck stretches but if the pain doesn't go
easily you could have a physical therapist relax your muscles around the
neck in a way that recovers your original curve now so try neck stretches
moving your left ear toward your left shoulder and then your right ear to your
right shoulder now but if that doesn't work your cervical
disc will shock observer in the neck may be displaced then you could have a
physical therapist treatment of physical therapist helps to put the disc back in
its correct place and make them that curved again using hands to apply
different pressures on the neck now this is something you cannot do alone yeah
you need a trained medical professional to help you do that so it looks like
once your neck is straight it can take quite a bit of time for your health
condition to recover so you feel better again true but if you find about your
neck problem early you could do those stretches and perhaps some therapy and
then your neck will regain its curve now let's take a look at on x-ray you can
see the neck regaining its curve now this patient received therapy over about
two months now when doing the stretches and therapy remember one thing no
tilting too long with your smartphone because there just cause your neck to
straightening again well good tips the sheong so other than
neck problems what other health risks do we have associated with excessive
smartphone use well evidently our eyes get stressed out too long too much too
because if you look at the smartphone's too long eyes get stressed now but more
importantly looking at smart phones smart phones emit blue light now experts
say much exposure to this light is harmful to our eyes first let's see what
this light is if you look at this light spectrum on the right of the picture the
light comes from rays on the blue end of the spectrum now we get most of our
exposure to this life from the Sun a digital devices such as smartphones also
emit this light although the amount emitted is only a fraction of what the
Sun emits about the blue light penetrates all the way to the retina the
innermost light sensitive issue tissue of the eye now health professionals say
this light is not all bad because it helps us to control our feelings and
concentrate better it also helps us to see things
in the dark but the amount of time people spend using smartphones and the
proximity of these digital screens to the users face have many doctors
concerned about possible long-term effects now let's see what what one
doctor has to say so they say prolonged exposure to blue light could damage
light-sensitive cells in our eyes and increase the risk of deterioration of
the macular which is the small central area of the retina that controls vision
and I hear as well that if you look at your smartphone while you're attempting
to go to sleep that kind of blue light can prevent you from falling to sleep
easily and that's something a lot of us do as a habit now before we go to bed
look check our smartphone for messages and emails or even just browse the
Internet but to protect ourselves then our eyes from this blue light is a top
priority is there something we can do to make sure our eyes are nicely protected
well there is if you happen to be someone who uses some iPhones or other
little screens for a long period of time one option is to physically block the
light and with a pair of blue light blocking glasses now they look like
regular eyepieces but they may cost a little more these glasses may not
completely block blue light but could filter out most of it so your eyes are
less exposed recently along with eye surgery patients more students and
office workers who spend a lot of time on digital screens such as smartphones
and computers are purchasing blue light blocking glasses okay so a whole new
market opening up there with people purchasing these glasses that protect
their eyes when looking at smartphones and you said other digital devices as
well so Shion thanks very much for coming into the studio you look very
dapper today and we appreciate all the work that you put into your report thank
you well thank you Mark