U.S. head and neck injuries related to cellphones have been rising since 2007

(via ) reveals that the number of head and neck injuries in the U.S. related to cellphone use has risen steadily over the last 20 years. The report covered 2,501 patients with a neck or head injury that was caused by the use of a cellphone between January 1998 to December 2017; these patients visited one of 100 Emergency Rooms tracked.  Had data from every ER in the states been used for the report, the authors say that over the same time frame, an estimated 76,000 people would have suffered these types of injuries.

Interestingly, the report indicated that ...

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