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One of my favorite tips EVER is to purchase a phone headset for your cell phone and your home phone. Whenever I see someone cradling their phone between their ear and their shoulder, it actually drives me a little nuts. Whenever I see a patient who has been complaining of neck or upper back pain cradling their phone that way it drives me a LOT nuts.

There are very few suggestions I can make which will have as positive an impact as this one thing. Holding you phone that way is just setting your cervical and thoracic spine up for pain. A headset will largely alleviate this concern.

Cell phone headsets can be purchased for less than 5 bucks pretty much anywhere, and the ones which connect to your home phone now pretty much all use the same connector. Buy one- it is worth ten thousand times more than the initial outlay.

Be well,

-Andy