It’s a position that’s tech-neck-ly exclusive to babies.
Still, adults of the digital age — folks constantly staring down at their devices or hunching overtop a laptop — are now remedying their poor posture and troublesome “tech neck” with tummy time.
“Instead of scrolling [on my phone], sitting in a chair and looking down, I’m just on my tummy and I’m scrolling with my phone in front of me,” said Bek , a content creator, in a TikTok how-to. 4
“If you are having neck problems from tech neck [because you’re] looking down all the time, get on your belly,” she urged before closing the clip with an infant-like “goo-goo, gaga.”
Sure, it’s a little childish, but achy millennials and Gen Zers are happily stomaching the trend.
A scourge of the times, “tech neck” is any form of