VIDEO. Does the use of our telephones modify our morphology?

“The ‘leaning forward’ position is not bad. It’s the one our parents or grandparents had when they read their newspapers”, explains Hemrick Verwaerde. For the physiotherapist and osteopath, the observation is simple. It’s not our smartphones that are bad, but the prolonged postures that users adopt. “We thought until a few years ago that it was bad to always be like that and that it caused us these pains. In fact, what we realize is not so much the ‘leaning forward’ position that is bad, it is once again the fact of staying there too long and not to move.”

“It is believed that new technologies and the modification of our movements, our postures have completely changed our body or, in any case, its physiognomy. No, there are small adaptations that take place but overall if the appearance of individuals has changed over the last ten years, it is not due to the use of a smartphone or computers.”, he adds. “The problem is not that we used these accessories, it’s that we spent much less time moving, that we are more and more sedentary and that behind, there are adaptations such as a grip weight or the onset of certain illnesses.”

So how to solve these problems? “What is going to be important is that, anyway, moving more whatever the movement or the position, it will do you good. As long as you can find exercises that allow you to move regularly throughout the day, that’s a positive thing.”