Podcast

The Doctor Who Named Text Neck

Dr. Dean Fishman coined the term Text Neck in 2009 after seeing the cervical curve of a 17 year old reversed on an X-ray, the kind of wear he was used to seeing in middle aged patients.

Peter sits down with the chiropractor who named Text Neck and went on to found the Text Neck Institute. What modern life is doing to men's bodies. Posture, joint mobility, sleep position, nutrition, why pain medication treats the wrong end of the problem, and why you can't feel any of this until a symptom finally shows up.

Chapters

Tap a timestamp to jump the video to that moment.

1. 0:00Meet Dr. Dean Fishman
2. 3:06Who actually walks into his office
3. 8:50Losing track of thoughts
4. 14:35What proper posture actually means
5. 17:27Getting older, and what you start to lose
6. 20:22Text neck, and what phones do to your spine
7. 23:13Why your joints need to move
8. 28:56You can't feel it until you get a symptom
9. 37:17Nutrition, and garbage in garbage out
10. 43:32Pain medication, and what he's seen
11. 46:40Asking why instead of treating the symptom
12. 56:00Sleep posture
13. 1:02:18Living with back pain himself