YIKES! Phones changing skeletons: 'bony spikes' are developing on backs of skulls

[zooks]

Researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia did the study

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Researchers said growing numbers of people have growths called enlarged external occipital protuberances at the base of their skull.

Considered rare when they were first discussed in the 1800s, we may now be able to feel the bony lumps with our fingers or see them on bald people.

And younger people are developing them faster, with research showing the bumps are most common among 18 to 30-year-olds.

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And Dr Shahar said that, although the bony lumps are unlikely to cause any damaging effects themselves, they may never go away.




https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7142307/Looking-phones-causing-bony-spikes-grow-skulls.html

[Tiggeroshii]

1. Ill get my sandpaper ready just in case.

[ProudLib72]

2. I have a big old 7 inch angle grinder you can borrow

It's sure to make quick work of any bumps.

[Codeine]

3. Quick tap with a ball peen hammer

and you’re good to go.

[Brawndo]

5. Good to go...to the morgue

[Codeine]

15. Some solutions are more permanent than others. nt

[JesterCS]

8. Maybe the body's way

Of evolving protection? Or the effects of cell radiation?

[Codeine]

16. No, it's musculoskeletal.

An extra bit of anchoring bone to support the muscles holding the head while we look down.

[FakeNoose]

4. Illustration

Researchers from Australia said the bony lumps, which they call enlarged external occipital protuberances, are becoming more common and larger among younger people who spend a lot of time looking down at smartphones and tablets because their neck muscles need bigger chunks of bone to attach to (Pictured: The bump of a 28-year-old is more than 3cm larger than a 58-year-old's in a study)

(From OP link)

[Dennis Donovan]

7. It's a skull-tail!

That's evolution, baby.

[Lochloosa]

10. Only when I can wrap it around a tree limb to help me climb

[jpak]

9. Boneheads

[harumph]

11. Lots of people have these - and did way before cell phones.

I've always have one - and they're also called an Anatolian Protuberance.

[zooks]

19. The article points out that these have been known about since the 1800s

What the study shows is the "younger people are developing them faster, with research showing the bumps are most common among 18 to 30-year-olds."

[bluedigger]

12. At least I'm not bowlegged from horse riding.

All repetitive activity has consequences for our physiology.

[blaze]

13. OK. How many of you are feeling around your heads right now?

[NightWatcher]

14. lowers head, raises hand

[Codeine]

17. I shave my head

so my skull and I have developed a close working relationship and familiarity.

[sdfernando]

18. I shave my.....oh nevermind! /nt

[Codeine]

20. Bony protuberance indeed! nt

[smirkymonkey]

21. Busted.

[KentuckyWoman]

22. Bahaha

Snort laughed