Signe, I suspect maybe we share similar family trees. I enjoy your strip but I hate your printing. Yours is the only strip of the many, many I read every day that I have to put my reading glasses on. I reminds me of an architect’s gone berzerk. Gregory Carlson
“Recently we reported the development of prominent exostosis young adults’ skulls (41%; 10–31 mm) emanating from the external occipital protuberance (EOP).”
The bony protuberance extensions appear to be formed from the prolonged and repetitive unnatural head posture used when there is a lot of cell phone use for texting. The anchoring area of the projections provide extra stability for the awkward head posture, but are known from previous work in much older adults (who in the past were the ones to predominantly get them) to be able to cause range of motion problems and lasting, serious discomfort.
Michael Nitabach, a professor of physiology, genetics and neuroscience at Yale University, was unconvinced by the findings.
“Without knowing about the cellphone use of any of the people whose head X-rays were analyzed, it is impossible to draw conclusions about correlation between cellphone use and skull morphology,” he said.
Australian researchers find ‘horns’ growing on young people’s skulls …https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/horns-are-growing-young-peoples-skulls-phone-use…
However, the study didn’t actually measure cell phone usage at all and used a population of chiropractic patients already experiencing neck pain, with no healthy individuals as a control method.
Things just aren’t settled yet till we have a proper series of experiments with controls and none of them having any business dealings that could compromise their veracity. Until then I don’t see it as proven.
GregCarlson Premium Member over 5 years ago
Signe, I suspect maybe we share similar family trees. I enjoy your strip but I hate your printing. Yours is the only strip of the many, many I read every day that I have to put my reading glasses on. I reminds me of an architect’s gone berzerk. Gregory Carlson
SukieCrandall Premium Member over 5 years ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21625-1
from the Abstract:
“Recently we reported the development of prominent exostosis young adults’ skulls (41%; 10–31 mm) emanating from the external occipital protuberance (EOP).”
The bony protuberance extensions appear to be formed from the prolonged and repetitive unnatural head posture used when there is a lot of cell phone use for texting. The anchoring area of the projections provide extra stability for the awkward head posture, but are known from previous work in much older adults (who in the past were the ones to predominantly get them) to be able to cause range of motion problems and lasting, serious discomfort.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
Michael Nitabach, a professor of physiology, genetics and neuroscience at Yale University, was unconvinced by the findings.
“Without knowing about the cellphone use of any of the people whose head X-rays were analyzed, it is impossible to draw conclusions about correlation between cellphone use and skull morphology,” he said.
Australian researchers find ‘horns’ growing on young people’s skulls …https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/horns-are-growing-young-peoples-skulls-phone-use…
However, the study didn’t actually measure cell phone usage at all and used a population of chiropractic patients already experiencing neck pain, with no healthy individuals as a control method.
Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cell-phones-are-probably-not-making-us-grow-horns-180972474/#sZXgCVfmZZkzdmGF.99
Things just aren’t settled yet till we have a proper series of experiments with controls and none of them having any business dealings that could compromise their veracity. Until then I don’t see it as proven.